2 Responses to “How Many White Newborns Are Put Up For Adoption Each Year?”

1. BLW_KAM Says:
   January 25th, 2010 at 11:17 AM

   Adoption statistics aren’t routinely gathered so there is no accurate data to answer your question. Here is some information for the US:
   1992 Was the Last Year National Adoption Totals Were Gathered
   The total number of adoptions each year has not been comprehensively compiled since 1992. While there are reporting mechanisms for foster care and international adoptions, states are not legally required to record the number of private, domestic adoptions. In 1992, the National Center for State Courts gathered adoption totals from a variety of sources, and estimated that 126,951 children were adopted through international, foster care, private agency, independent and step-parent adoptions. [4] NCSC estimated that stepparent adoptions accounted for 42% of all adoptions and foster care adoptions 15%. [5]
   -http://www.adoptioninstitute.org/researc…
   There is one trend that can be identified with a high degree of certainty. At the current time, a far greater number of adults seek to adopt newborn infants than the number of newborn infants available to be adopted. Published statistics indicate that there are 3.3 adoption seekers for every child that is actually adopted.
   Additional statistics indicate that 20,000 or more newborn infants are placed for adoption each year in the United States. It is also true that 11% to 24% of couples that experience infertility decide to pursue adoption.
   -http://www.families4kids.org/adoption/da…
   ETA: This page allows you to get detailed data of adoption through US foster care: http://ndas.cwla.org/data_stats/access/p…

2. LinnyG Says:
   January 25th, 2010 at 12:25 PM

   This is a good place to start. If it is not there, they may have more links. http://www.exiledmothers.com/adoption_fa…

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