Adoption Stats

I wanted to throw out some statistics on adoption and here are some interesting things I found...

Domestically...

According to the Administration for Children and Families, At the end of Fiscal Year 2006 (September) there were 508, 446 children in Foster Care in the United States. Over 16,000 were in Ohio!

The following information was found on Adoption.com

·4 in 10 American adults (81.5 million) have considered adoption for their own families
· 63 percent of all American adults have a very favorable opinion about adoption (seven percentage point increase since measured in 1997)
· 64 percent have experienced adoption within their own families or among close friends (a six percentage point increase since 1997)
· 78 percent believe the country should be doing more to encourage adoption
· 95 percent think adoptive parents should receive the same maternity and paternity benefits from employers as biological parents
· Hispanic populations are more likely (54 percent) to consider adoption than African-American (45 percent) and White populations (36 percent) – though African-Americans are most likely to consider adopting a child who has been in foster care for a few years

International Adoption...

Here is a list of the top 20 countries involved in International Adoption to the United States.

Top 20 Orphan Issuing Countries FY-2007
COUNTRY IR3 IR4 TOTAL
China-mainland 5,453
Guatemala 4,728
Russia 2,310
Ethiopia 1,255
South Korea 939
Vietnam 828
Ukraine 606
Kazakhstan 540
India 416
Liberia 314
Colombia 310
Philippines 265
Haiti 190
Taiwan 184
Mexico 89
Poland 84
Thailand 67
Kyrgyzstan 61
Brazil 55
Uganda 54

Where do you fit in?

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