The Research I found for 2001:
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In fiscal year 2001, 57 percent of children leaving foster care were returned to their parents.
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Your research:
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If you'll check back to my original post on this thread, I specifically state that the statistics show 1/3 as the conservative estimate (30 or more percent is what you'll be looking for in the citations). I then applied that percentage to the approximate total number of children in foster care, listed in most references as around 500,000. My calculation, based on the information I found, is where the 165,000 estimate comes from.
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If my math is correct and 57% of the children who enter to Foster Care are returned to their parents
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your research shows that 30% were wrongfully removed what does that mean?
Does your research say how many of the 30% are returned--or are any eventually adopted? And if the 30% are coundted as returned to their parents out of the 57% of all the children who are, does that mean all of our services and assistance and funds are only successful for 27% of the families who use them?