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Statistics

FOSTER CHILDREN

There are 437,000 children in fostercare 
in the United States.


97% of these young adults will immediately enter into chronic poverty.

40% will be homeless within 18 months.


90% of foster children will experience severe trauma.

25% will attempt suicide.


71% of young women will be pregnant before their twenty-first birthday, with half of their children destined to be placed in the foster care system themselves.

81% of young men will become incarcerated.

PARENTLESS CHILDREN

 

There are 21 million children

in the United States being raised by single parents.

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There are about 3.2 million paternal, maternal, or double orphans in the U.S.


Children from a mother-absent or father-absent home are also more likely to become depressed, have suicidal thoughts, anxiety, social withdrawals into adulthood.


Almost 10% of Black Children have one or both parents who are deceased. For White children, it's 3.3 %, Asian children it's 1.4% and Latino it's 4.2%.

Half (50.6%) of all Black children lived with one parent, compared with about one in five (21.8%) of White children.

SOCIAL WORKERS

Of the more than than 708,000 social workers in the United States, Around 65% of social workers find it difficult to balance their work and personal life due to burnout and stress. In a study, about 77% of social workers reported experiencing moderate to high levels of burnout. The average burnout rate among social workers is 40-50%.  

Statistics have been derived from the following sources: Children's Law Center of California  Pew Research  Fostering Promises Crown Counseling
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