Home Staging Statistics
June 15th, 2010
Question: What % of adoptions stem from an abusive home situation?
People seem to be answering questions from the view of different adoption situtaions. I wonder which situations are the most common. There are at least 4 reasons for placement that I can think of:
1) Parent(s) does not want to raise child at this time due to finances or their stage in life
2) Parent(s) feel they or others may abuse child if kept
3) State removes the child from parent(s)
4) Child is an orphan
Does anyone have HARD statistics that show which of these situations is the dominant case?
Thanks.
P.S. If there are no numbers, I suggest people preface their answers on this board. These situations call for radically different solutions.
Answer: I know this doesn't answer all of this important question, but it does discuss on the number of foster children with parents whose rights had been terminated.
There are a number of statistics from fiscal year 2000 given on the CasaNet Website in their Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System report.
http://www.casanet.org/library/foster-care/afcars-report.htm
One of the statistics shows that of the 556,000 children in foster care that year, the number whose parents had their parental rights terminated was 75,000.
Of the children in foster care for that year, these are the outcomes:
Reunification with Parent(s) or Primary Caretaker(s) 57% 157,712
Living with Other Relative(s) 10% 26,291
Adoption 17% 46,581
Emancipation 7% 19,895
Guardianship 4% 10,341
Transfer to Another Agency 3% 7,726
Runaway 2% 5,865
Death of Child 0% 589
There is some very interesting information in this report regarding age, race, length of stay in foster care and more.
EDIT:
I was adopted about 40 years ago. My aparents were told it was because of abuse. When I received my non-id 30 years ago from the adoption agency that handled my case , the social worker who looked in my records to get my information said she had no idea why they were told that, as it wasn't true. Hmmmmm. I think agencies probably used to tell this to prospective adoptive parents whether it was true or not in many cases. I was a couple of years old and had been hanging out in foster care for 7 months. I think it was said to make my aparents feel sorry for me, and more likely to take me even though I wasn't a baby.
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