Rd Thompson wrote in a message to Charles Hunter:
 RT> Hi Charles, as you were just saying about Choices.......
CH> AR>But most of them will never get adopted.
CH> 
CH> How do you know that, Alan?
 RT> By looking up the answers.  This information is from the
 RT> National Adoption Information Clearinghouse:
 RT> In 1992, 127,441 children of all races and nationalities
 RT> were adopted in the US.  (1992 is the last year where
 RT> *complete* statistics are available.)  Of these, 53,525 of
 RT> the total adoptions were stepparent or relative adoptions;
 RT> 19,733 of the total adoptions were conducted by public
 RT> agencies (adoptions of children from the foster care
 RT> system); 6,536 children from other countries were adopted in
 RT> the US.  The remainder of the 1992 adoptions were either
 RT> private agency or independent adoptions of US children.
 RT> At the end of the fiscal year 1992, there were 442,218
 RT> children in foster care. By 12/31/94 that number had grown
 RT> to 469,073.  Sure looks to me like adoption is not keeping
 RT> up.
 RT> This information and a lot more can be found at the DHHS
 RT> Children's Bureau web site at
 RT> http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/cb/stats/index.htm     
 RT> This site has the latest in foster care and adoption
 RT> statistics  
 RT> Hope this helps.
Thanks RD.
Alan
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