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Foster Care
When birth parents are unable to care for their children, the children are placed in foster homes. There are currently 532,000 children in foster care in the United States. Nearly 130,000 of those children are eligible for adoption; yet only 53,000 were adopted in 2002.
In 1996, President Clinton issued an Executive Memorandum to double, by the year 2002, the number of foster children adopted or placed in other permanent homes each year. The Department of Health and Human Services developed Adoption 2002 as a blueprint for adoption and other permanency planning for children in the public child welfare system. In 1997, Congress overwhelmingly passed the Adoption and Safe Families Act (PL 105-89), which aimed to increase the number of adoptions in the United States. These policies established such goals for children in the child welfare system as safety, permanency and well-being.
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Adoption
Approximately 127,000 children are adopted each year in the United States. These children are adopted through public and private agencies; as infants through teenagers; from the United States and through international adoption. In 2002, 53,000 were adopted from foster care.
Successful adoptions require ongoing services - for the child and parents - before, during and after the legal papers are signed.
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