National Foster Care Statistics:

Each year, more than 400,000 children experience foster care in the United States. 
In 2017, 9 out of every 1,000 children in the United States were determined to be victims of abuse or neglect. 
15% of children in foster care have languished there for three or more years. 
Of children who entered foster care in 2017, 49% were five years old or younger at the time they entered the system. 
50% will never graduate from high school or obtain GED. 
Only 15% of foster children will attend college, and fewer than 3% will earn a college degree. 
25% of foster children experience PTSD (comparable to the rate of U.S. war veterans), and tend to suffer high rates of debilitating depression and low self-esteem. 
After “aging out” of the system, 25% of foster teens will experience homelessness at least once.