Question by Tara J ™: What is the percentage of children who age out of foster care?
How many actually end up being adopted?
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Answer by Gershom
For some informative information on the foster care youth, children and system you can visit here:
http://www.childwelfare.gov/systemwide/statistics/childwelfare_foster.cfm
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In general about 8-10% of foster children “age-out” of the system every year.
Remember that about 50-60% are reunited with their bio-families, and about 20-25% are adopted and about 10% go and live with other family members.
The remaining are “lost” and usually are runaways, killed, or missing.