What are the ages of the children who need foster homes and adoption?
The children who need temporary and permanent families are teenagers, toddlers, infants, children with special behavioral and medical needs and sibling groups. They represent all ethnic groups. The majority of children in out-of-home care fall within the 1-5 age range (33.4 percent) and the 13-17 age range (25.8 percent). The majority of children in out-of-home care are either Caucasian (38.3 percent) or Hispanic (37.3 percent), followed by African American at 13.7 percent.
