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Smoothing the Path to Adoption
HKS Impact Newsletter — About 400,000 children are in foster care in the United States at any one time.
Of the roughly 100,000 children waiting for a permanent home, only about half are adopted.
“The adoption gap is not due to lack of interest in adoption by families; surveys indicate there are more than enough interested families to adopt all children waiting in foster care to be adopted,” write the authors of a recent report on easing adoption. read more
Federal Legislation Can Remove Adoption Barriers
The Huffington Post — While the Adoption and Safe Families Act was a landmark piece of legislation, there are still over 100,000 children in foster care in the United States waiting for an adoptive family.
And each year, 27,000 children "age out" of foster care, reaching the age limit for their state and moving on to "independence" without ever knowing the security of a permanent family.
The results are, predictably, disastrous.