Every number on this site comes from official U.S. government sources. No speculation. No anonymous claims. Just receipts.
Official federal data on children in foster care — entries, exits, demographics, and aggregate outcomes. The primary source for the 328,947 total and 22,097 infant figures used on this site.
Definitive audit identifying 74,353 missing episodes from foster care (2018–2020). Found 69% were never properly reported to the national system. The single most important document on this site.
23,160+ reports of children missing from foster care in 2024. Source for the 1-in-7 trafficking risk estimate for missing foster youth.
Substantiated maltreatment rates while children are in foster care (0.9% national average). Source for state-by-state maltreatment comparisons.
U.S. births (~3.6 million per year). Establishes the starting point of the pipeline visualization.
Foster home turnover rates (30–50% annually), foster parent perpetrator data, and placement stability research.
This website was built to make the truth unavoidable. Every statistic is directly traceable to the federal government's own publications.