What is the percentage of children who age out of foster care?

Question

How many actually end up being adopted?

Answer 1

In general about 8-10% of foster children "age-out" of the system every year.

Remember that about 50-60% are reunited with their bio-families, and about 20-25% are adopted and about 10% go and live with other family members.

The remaining are "lost" and usually are runaways, killed, or missing.

Answer 2

For some informative information on the foster care youth, children and system you can visit here:

http://www.childwelfare.gov/systemwide/s...

I believe its as up to date as possible. If i'm wrong, someone will correct me no doubt.