Early Parents
More than 40% of foster youth became parents within 2.5 to 4 years after exiting care, according to the national survey.
This issue of AdvoCasey outlines the many challenges of serving foster youth in transition. It also highlights ambitious campaigns that are unfolding across the country — in places like San Antonio, Cincinnati and Los Angeles County, California — that aim to forge better options and a better path forward for these young people in need.
AdvoCasey is a seasonal newsletter with themed issues that spotlight programs and policies making measurable differences in the lives of kids and families.
Slightly more than half of the nearly 42,000 youth and young adults who exited foster care in 1998 chose to reunify with their families.
Youth and young adults from two major racial categories — white and black — made up more than 80% of the nearly 120,000 individuals exiting foster care in 1998.
More than 40% of foster youth became parents within 2.5 to 4 years after exiting care, according to the national survey.
In 1991, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released a survey analyzing the success of teens after exiting foster care. The study found that only about half of these youth had completed high school, a little less than half had jobs and 25% had experienced homelessness after exiting care.
