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Foster care in the U.S. - number of adopted with public agency involvement 2007-2021
In 2021, about 54,240 children in the United States were adopted with the involvement of the public child welfare agency. This is a decrease from the previous year, when 57,881 children were adopted with public child welfare agency involvement.