What is the ratio of children placed by public adoption agencies to those placed by private agencies?

Question

Is it about 2 to 1, 10 to 1, 50 to 1 or several hundreds to 1?

Answer 1

This may give you some more insight too:

    *  In 2000 and 2001, about 127,000 children were adopted annually in the United States. Since 1987, the number of adoptions annually has remained relatively constant, ranging from 118,000 to 127,000.

    * The source of adoptions is no longer dominated by kinship adoptions and private agency adoptions. Public agency and intercountry adoptions now account for more than half of all adoptions.

    * Adoptions through publicly funded child welfare agencies accounted for two-fifths of all adoptions. More than 50,000 public agency adoptions in each year (2000 and 2001) accounted for about 40 percent of adoptions, up from 18 percent in 1992 for those 36 States that reported public agency adoptions in 1992 (Flango & Flango, 1995).

    * Intercountry adoptions accounted for more than 15 percent of all adoptions. Intercountry adoptions increased from 5 percent to 15 percent of adoptions in the United States between 1992 and 2001 (U.S. Department of State, n.d.).

    * The other two-fifths of adoptions are primarily private agency, kinship, or tribal adoptions. With the available data, it is not possible to separate figures within this group, although the percentages of all adoptions in that group as a whole have decreased. In 1992, for example, stepparent adoptions (a form of kinship adoption) alone accounted for two-fifths (42 percent) of all adoptions.

http://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/s_adopt...

Answer 2

Every country is different so the numbers would vary.

Answer 3

Complete and correct records of adoptions within the USA have not been collected since 1992.

The Evan B Donaldson Adoption Institute states -

"..........states are not legally required to record the number of private, domestic adoptions. "

Check out this site for more details -

http://www.adoptioninstitute.org/researc...

Answer 4

I am not sure there is a reliable way to find the answer to this question.

Even withing the Foster Adoption system there are private agencies that handle placements.

For statisics on the US Adoptions the best place you may be able to find some data would be the Child Welfare Gateway.