What Statistics Show:
1,200 children enter foster care each day remaining there on average for more than two years.
11% have remained there for five or more years.
50% of all children in foster care have chronic medical problems and developmental delays.
80% of all children in foster care have serious emotional problems.
80% of children end up in foster care because of neglect, physical, emotional, and sexual abuse.
20% because of inadequate stable and permenant housing...poor families.