States Speeding Up Adoption Wait Times
Posted September 7, 2015
By the Annie E. Casey Foundation
Since 2000, the percent of children waiting more than three years to be adopted dropped by 35%, moving from 48% to 31%.
In 2013, approximately 102,000 children in foster care were waiting for adoption, 28,000 less than in 2000. Non-Hispanic white children (42%) and younger children, ages birth to 5, (44%) were more likely to be in foster care waiting for adoption. Data also show that of the kids waiting for adoption, 31% had been waiting for more than three years and that only 14% have been waiting for less than a year.
