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RE: Foster and Adoptive Parents Don't Care About the Corrupt CPS and Foster 'Care' System
I totally get your point, though for that statistic 1750 children who died in 2016 and 85 of them came at the hands of the system and the rest of the hands of their parents... The problem with that stat is there's more kids with bio parents than in the system anyways so it should be a percentage.
That is, 1750 - 85 = 1665 / total parents in US in 2016 = likely smaller # than same math done with system households & foster kids...thx for the reply!
You have to look further at the picture. In 2016 there were 126.22 million households, 27.98 percent of those household were single persons the rest families with children. Of those families with children there were over four hundred thousand children in foster care across the US. The 1,750 number comes from kids who were in foster care, kids whose parents had CPS called on them and were either being supervised by CPS in their homes and/or CPS released them back into their homes or were released from CPS supervision. Since every death of any child is investigated by CPS is how they discover that a family had prior contact with CPS, were in the foster care system of CPS, and/or were released from CPS supervision or were under supervision. That's why some state's CPS systems ( five of them) came to be sued, to many kids in or had contact with CPS in some form prior to their death so someone dropped the ball somewhere. Also note that some families contact with CPS didn't have to occur in that year, family supervision, release of supervision and/or release from foster care could have been in prior years to the children's deaths.