Foster care facts 🗣:
Y’all wanna know what’s crazy 4 out of 5 female foster youth will experience teen pregnancy ( includes age 12 up until 17
We are diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) at six times the general population and DOUBLE the rate of veterans returning from war.
California has nearly 3x as many foster youth as the average of any other state
Almost 80% of inmate incarcerated in our prisons have spent time in foster care
50% of foster youth become homeless within 18 months after leaving care
65% of children in foster care experience 7 or more school changes from elementary to high school
1 out of 4 foster youth will be in prison within 2 years of emancipation
The current average birthdays a child will experience in foster care: 3.
Male foster youth are more likely to get arrested than their counterparts who aren’t in the system
Black children make up 36.6% of the children in foster care but only 15.1 of the US population
Native Americans children make up 1.2% but 2.6
Native children are 6x more likely to spend more than 2 years in the foster care system then white children
Black children are 2x more likely to spend more than 2 years outside their home than their white counterparts
Hispanic children are 1.5 times more likely to spend more than 2 years in the foster care system than white children
Native American children are 3x more likely to be referred to Child protection services (CPS) than white children
Hispanic children are more than 1.3 times more likely to be referred to CPS than white children
CPS reports made regarding Black children are 2x more likely to be accepted for investigation than reports made about white children
Native children are almost 5x more likely to be removed from their home than white children are
For Black children, they are 2x more likely to be removed from their home than white children are
Hispanic children are more than 1.5 more likely to be removed from their homes than white children are
Their is white supremacy in adoption. There are more white foster parents than there are BIPOC making it harder for POC to become foster parents
The foster care system is also a connection to the Native American Boarding schools
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