More than 7 Million
children are impacted by the child welfare system, and over 368,000 are in foster care.
90%
of these children will experience severe trauma.
About 50%
will reunite with their biological families.
25%
will attempt suicide.
For the 20,000 young adults who age out each year,
81%
of young men will become incarcerated.
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.
40%
will be homeless within 18 months.
97%
of these young adults will immediately enter into chronic poverty.
