In 2010, 227 foster children in New Hampshire were waiting to be adopted
Adoption provides children with a lifetime of emotional and legal connections to a family . Foster children
who cannot return home risk reaching adulthood without a permanent family of their own. In 2008, Congress
passed the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act, which will help more children find permanent families. Despite this progress, thousands of children—especially older children and children of
color—still wait for families. And many families who have adopted lack critical post‐adoption support that is
essential to their children’s long‐term stability and well‐being.
A higher proportion of African American and
Hispanic children, and children of multiple races,
are waiting to be adopted than are adopted in New Hampshire.
Children Children
Waiting Adopted
Caucasian 75% 81%
African American 5% 1%
Multiple Races 5% 2%
Hispanic 13% 10%
One may surmise, that this is the reason that several people have and/or will testify in an upcoming jury trial that DCYF worker's have been telling Mother's who are trying to keep custody, not to tell anyone that their child (that look's white and for whom they are losing custody of) "is bi-racial", for fear the Adopters won't want them.
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