Fed AFCAR's on Foster Children, Alive, Dead and Unaccounted For

This posting was submitted by a friend who researched the number of children in foster care, the number of children who died in foster care and the number of children who were in foster care, now unaccounted for.

I spent several hours going over state and federal records of the latest count on foster children and here are the final totals.
The Fed's (AFCAR) say there are 423,773 in foster care. However when you add it up individually as far as the separate numbers, those in the different placements of foster care it only comes to 420,698. Then when you add the confirmed dead children of 417, it brings the total to 421,115, which means that there are still 2,658 children unaccounted for.
Now here are the figures from the individual states that come to a grand total of 468,827 children. When you subtract the Fed's total and the confirmed dead, it leaves a difference of 44,637 children. Moral of this story, we still don't really know how many children are in foster care. In doing this research, I also ran into a report that said that Texas admitted to getting $101,105 per child, per year, in some special needs children.
According to the Feds Afcar's,there are 930 kids in foster care in New Hampshire, but according to the State of New Hampshire there are 1,178.