![]() ![]() ![]() White children make up more than two in five kids in care ( 43%), while Black and Hispanic or Latino kids each comprise more than one in five (both 22%). Over the last five years, the data on kids in foster care, broken down by race and ethnicity, has remained fairly steady. Like Black children, American Indian and Alaska Native kids are also overrepresented in foster care, making up 2% of those in care and 1% of the child population. In other words, these three groups are under-represented in foster care when compared to their presence in the total child population. child population but only 1% of its foster care population. And Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander kids make up nearly 5. Latino or Hispanic children represent 26% of kids nationwide, yet 22% of all kids in foster care. In 2021, Black children represented 14% of the total child population but 22% of all kids in foster care.īy comparison: White kids represent 49% of the nation’s child population and only 43% of its foster care population. Even so, Black children are still overrepresented among youth in foster care relative to the general child population. The share of children who are Black and in foster care is the lowest it has been in two decades. ![]()
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