Figure 1. Placement at 5- to 6-year
follow-up of children potentially eligible for adoption.
Figure 1 is titled “Placement at 5- to 6-year follow-up of children
potentially eligible for adoption.” It is a pie chart that shows, of the
children in the child welfare system who were potentially eligible for
adoption, what percentage of infants were adopted by the 5-to-6-year follow-up.
The chart shows that, by the 5-to-6-year follow-up, 56.0 percent of children
were adopted by means of the traditional adoption process, an additional
5.0 percent were adopted by kin, 30.4 percent were cared for by kin, and
8.7 percent were in foster care.
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Figure 1)
Figure 2. Percentage of children adopted
for each race/ethnicity group
Figure 2 is titled “Percentage of children adopted for each race/ethnicity
group.” It is a bar graph that shows, for each racial/ethnic group, what
percentage of children in that group were adopted. The horizontal axis
shows four groups: “Black,” “White,” “Hispanic,” and “Other.” The vertical
axis is labeled “Percentage.” The first bar shows that 54.9 percent of
Black children were adopted. The second bar shows that 59.9 percent of
White children were adopted. The third bar shows that 57.0 percent of
Hispanic children were adopted. The fourth bar shows that 92.3 percent
of children classified as “Other” were adopted.
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Figure 2)
Figure 3. Percentage of adopted children
with extremely low scores on developmental assessments at 5 to 6 years.
Figure 3 is titled “Percentage of adopted children with extremely low
scores on developmental assessments at 5 to 6 years.” It is a bar graph
that shows, for each of eight developmental assessments, the percentage
of adopted children in the child welfare system who scored very low. The
horizontal axis shows percentages at increments of 0, 10, 20, 30, and
40. The vertical axis shows the titles of the assessment instruments.
They are (in order from bottom to top of chart) as follows: “TRF (Behavioral/Emotional
Teacher),” “CBDL (Behavioral/Emotional Parent),” “SSRS (Social Skills),”
“Vineland (Adaptation),” “Letter Identification/Passage Comprehension,”
“WJ (Calculation/Applied Problems),” “PLS-3 (Language),” and “K-BIT (Cognitive).”
The first bar shows that 19.4 percent of children had clinically relevant
behavioral or emotional problems as reported by teachers on the TRF assessment.
The second bar shows that 27.5 percent of children had clinically relevant
behavioral or emotional problems as reported by parents on the CBCL assessment.
The third bar shows that 4.8 percent had social skills problems (according
to the SSRS assessment). The fourth bar shows that 33.9 percent had problems
meeting their daily-living needs (e.g., dressing, toileting, helping herself
or himself when thirsty, blowing his or her nose, putting toys or clothes
away, using a telephone, using coins), as indicated by the Vineland assessment.
The fifth bar shows that only 2.0 percent of adopted children had a very
low score on the language assessment (letter identification and passage
comprehension). The sixth bar shows that 5.8 percent of children had a
very low score on the WJ (calculation and applied problems) assessment.
The seventh bar indicates that 5.6 percent of children had an extremely
low score on the PLS-3 (language) assessment. The eighth bar shows that
1.8 percent of children had a very low score on the K-BIT (cognitive)
assessment.
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