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On any given day in the United States, over 400,000 children, who have been temporarily or permanently removed from their biological families, are dependent on the country’s foster care system. Yet a perennial challenge facing the child welfare system is recruiting enough foster parents to meet the need — a problem that has worsened during the pandemic.
The pandemic has created new challenges in the foster care system and exacerbated old ones — creating delays in placements and adoptions and forcing some older youth to exit the system amid a public health and economic crisis. The response, moreover, hasn’t been uniform across the country, or nearly fast enough, say child welfare advocates. Read the article here.
The pandemic is not just impacting parents and pregnant people — all prospective parents are facing new challenges.
This article is part of “The Price of Modern Parenting” series for the New York Times.
Each adoption process shares the same ultimate purpose: to unite children who need families with those that want children. Yet, despite this common goal, the price tag of adoption in the United States varies widely.
