Justice
Adoption Numbers in Question
Rachel Blustain |
Sixteen years ago the federal government put new pressure on states to facilitate adoptions. But it never bothered to track how many of those adoptions fail.
Jeremy Kohomban runs one of the largest residential treatment centers in New York state. Kohomban says estimates that 20 percent or more of the boys who have "grown up in the system" were once in an adoptive home.
Sixteen years ago the federal government put new pressure on states to facilitate adoptions. But it never bothered to track how many of those adoptions fail.
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