Question: How Many Children Leave Care Each Year?
Answer:
The number of the children who left foster care, according to the most current AFCARS Report (Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System Report), on September 30, 2001, was 263,000.
- Over half of the children were reunified with their parents
- 10% went to live with a relative
- 18% were adopted
- 7% aged out of the system
