Tennessee Child Welfare System Profile

2000 1999 1999 1999
Child Population Child Abuse Substantiated Children in Foster Care Completed Adoptions
Population 1,398,515 10,611 10,796 382
  White 73% 62.5% 58.0% 59.2%
  African American 21% 31.6% 39.2% 37.4%
  Hispanic 4% 1.5% 1.5% 2.4%
  Asian 1% 0.3% 0.4% 0.0%
Child welfare costs (1998) 398,652,983

 $ per capita

73
 

 
 

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