The Challenge of Finding Homes for Rural America’s Foster Children
“In 2012, there were 397,000 children in foster care in the United States. By then this figure had, happily, been declining for years, from a high of 567,000 in 1999. But since then, it has steadily risen again: In 2016, the most recent year for which data is available, the number of children had increased to 437,000—and the American foster-care system isn’t equipped to handle them all.”