US: Kids in Foster Care Belong in Families, Not Modern Day Orphanages (Opinion)
Imprint – January 12, 2022
During the Great Depression, at the height of the “orphanage era” of child welfare in the United States, 144,000 children lived in those settings. By the 1950s, the system had begun a decades-long shift towards the use of foster homes and today, the American orphanage is largely considered “extinct.” But is it? Our child welfare system still places tens of thousands of kids in institutional care every year. Nearly 44,000 children, or around 10% of U.S. kids in foster care, are in institutional placements.
Also: Children in Institutional Care: Delayed Development and Resilience: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4130248/
Also: AFCARS Report 27: https://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/documents/cb/afcarsreport27.pdf

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