adoptions

Both Ends Burning, a nonprofit child welfare advocacy group, just released a 53-page report that investigates the U.S. Department of State’s decision to suspend the adoptions of abandoned children from Nepal and examines the 56 U.S.

There is a major blind spot in national data when it comes to the child welfare continuum, and it is on the back end. The federal government has never established a systematic way to collect information from states about the number of finalized adoptions of foster youths that “disrupted,” ending with a youth heading back to foster care.