Adoption Network said, “[there are] over 400,000 children in foster care in the U.S., [and] 114,556 cannot be returned to their families and are waiting to be adopted. Among these children, males outnumber females, African American children are disproportionately represented, and over half are 6 years old or older…More than 60% of children in foster care spend two to five years in the system before being adopted. Almost 20% spend five or more years in foster care before being adopted. Some never get adopted.”

Rates in terms of dollars signs and timetables should not be the determining factor to not pursue adoption. In reality, these things, while being annoying to deal with, are things that are associated with bringing a precious child into your forever family. They are worth every obstacle that has to be faced.

As of August 2018, the world population was over 7.6 billion people. Around 4 million babies are born in the United States each year. According to the Adoption Network statistics, around 140,000 children are adopted by American families each year, and around 62% of babies in domestic infant adoptions were placed with their adoptive families within a month of birth.

Of non-stepparent adoptions, about 59% are from the child welfare (or foster) system, 26% are from other countries, and 15% are voluntarily relinquished American babies. Around 37% percent of adopted children are non-Hispanic white compared with adoptive parents, 73% of which are non-Hispanic white.

Overall, 40% of the adopted children are of a different race, culture, or ethnicity compared to both of their adoptive parents (or their sole parent if there is only one parent in the household).

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