New York Child Welfare System Profile

2000 1999 1999 1999
Child Population Child Abuse Substantiated Children in Foster Care Completed Adoptions
Population 4,690,107 64,045 52,672 4,719
  White 55% 38.0% 14.2% 9.0%
  African American 18% 31.0% 44.0% 53.0%
  Hispanic 19% 18.4% 14.8% 14.0%
  Asian 5% 0.1% 0.3% 0.0%
  Missing

25.0%

Child welfare costs (1998) 1,484,167,422

 $ per capita

82
 

 
 

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