Foster care in the U.S. - number of children 2021, by case goals

Published by Erin Duffin, Dec 7, 2022
In the United States, the goal in the majority of foster care cases was to reunite children with their parents or primary caretakers. In 2021, this was the case for 201,297 children, or about 53 percent of the children in the foster care system.

Number of children in foster care in the United States in 2021, by case goals

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Release date

June 2022

Region

United States

Survey time period

September 30, 2021

Supplementary notes

Data as of September 30, 2020.

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