New Mexico Child Welfare System Profile

2000 1999 1999 1999
Child Population Child Abuse Substantiated Children in Foster Care Completed Adoptions
Population 508,574 3,730 1,978 258
  White 33% 75.7% 28.5% 45.7%
  African American 2% 3.7% 7.3% 0.0%
  Hispanic 51% 45.9%

56.3%

54.3%
  Native American 12% 8.6%

6.5%

Child welfare costs (1998) 64,151,816

 $ per capita

37
 

 
 

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