Foster Care Statistics
Over 510,000 American children are in foster care, taken away when their families are in crisis and can’t take care of them. But there aren’t enough foster families to take them in. There isn’t enough money to provide them the things every child needs. There aren’t enough people to help them, mentor them, or to simply cheer them up and give them hope for the future.
If nothing changes… by the year 2020:
-22,500 children will die of abuse or neglect, most before their fifth birthday^
-More than 10.5 million children will spend some time in foster care^^
-More than 300,000 children will age out of our foster care system, some in poor health and many unprepared for success in higher education, technical college or the workforce^^^
-75,000 former foster youth, who aged out of the system, will experience homelessness^^^^^
https://www.fosterclub.com/article/foster-care-statistics
