"Saved" by the System. / Akiba Solomon.
by Solomon, Akiba; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2003Article 17Family. Publisher: ColorLines, 2002ISSN: 1522-3213;.Subject(s): United States. Department of Health and Human Services | African American children | Child abuse | Child welfare | Children of minorities | Foster children | Foster home care | RacismDDC classification: 050 Summary: "According to the federal government's most recent available national total, 39 percent of the 581,000 children in foster care are black, yet African Americans comprise only 17 percent of the youth population." (COLORLINES) This article examines the reasons why "all 50 states have a disproportionate number of black children in care" and "in 37 states, the foster care percentage is twice that of the state's youth population.".
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Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2003.
Originally Published: "Saved" by the System, Fall 2002; pp. 13-16.
"According to the federal government's most recent available national total, 39 percent of the 581,000 children in foster care are black, yet African Americans comprise only 17 percent of the youth population." (COLORLINES) This article examines the reasons why "all 50 states have a disproportionate number of black children in care" and "in 37 states, the foster care percentage is twice that of the state's youth population.".
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