When Our Children Age Out

Each year, approximately 20,000 youth will age out of the foster care system when they turn 18 or 21, or when they finish high school (depending upon the state in which they live.) These children are at increased risk of poor educational outcomes, experiencing homelessness, and being unemployed.

Indiana, Florida, Georgia and West Virginia, all grappling with the opioid crisis, are among the states with the largest one-year increases in the number of foster care children.

How CPS Protects our children

Perpetrators of Maltreatment

While In
Custody of:Physical  
AbuseSexual  
AbuseNeglectMedical
NeglectFatalities
CPS160112410146.4
Parents5913241121.5
         Number of Cases per 100,000 children in the United States.  These numbers come from The National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect (NCCAN) in Washington.

         Imagine that, 6.4 children die at the hands of the agencies that are supposed to protect, and only 1.5 at the hands of parents per 100,000 children.  CPS perpetrates more abuse, neglect, and sexual abuse and kills more children then parents in the United States. If the citizens of this country hold CPS to the same standards that they hold parents to, no judge should ever put another child in the hands of ANY government agency because CPS nationwide is guilty for more harm and death than any human being combined.  CPS nation wide is guilty for more human rights violations and death of children then the homes they took them out of. When are the judges going to wake up to see that they are sending children to their death and a life of abuse when children are removed from safe homes at the mere opinion of a bunch of social workers.