There are 650,000 children in US Foster Care! So few families are available that foster children are being detained with juveniles charged with arson, rape or murder! You can be a foster parent or adopt a child in US Foster Care if you are single, married, gay, lesbian, straight, bi, divorced or widowed, own or rent your home, have parenting experience or none at all! You can qualify! Even in Texas! If a child is freed for adoption, foster parents may be given priority consideration 126,000 US foster children are waiting for someone to adopt them right now! Every 10 minutes a child is abducted by a stranger! 74% of abducted children who are murdered are dead within three hours! 95% are male! 70% are white! Most are 15 years old when they start molesting children! 77,000 sex offenders are missing from the databases of 32 states. It is against the law for any United States citizen to travel abroad to engage in sex with a child Individuals are subject to prosecution in the United States even if they committed the crime on foreign soil Four Million women, infants, girls and boys are trafficked into the international sex trade and forced labor. 50,000 are smuggled into the USA every year. Two million children are enslaved in the global commercial sex trade. Many of these children, sold into prostitution to pay off family debts, work in brothels, where they are required to have sex with as many as 30 men each day. Most prostituted children start at under 5 years old! U.S. citizens account for 25% of child sex tourists worldwide. They travel abroad for sex tours. 13 Million American Children do not have enough to eat! The average age of a homeless person in the United States is 9 YEARS OLD! 750,000 Americans are homeless! Every day in the USA more than 3 children die as a result of child abuse. 44% of the children are under 1 year old! Hundreds of thousands of children serve as soldiers in armed conflicts. Every month 250,000 children become infected with HIV. In Africa, the social and economic devastation caused by HIV/AIDS in a year is greater than the combined destruction of the continent’s wars! Be A Mentor! Volunteer in your state! Each day, about 74 people receive an organ transplant but 17 people die because of the shortage of donated organs. Only five countries still execute children! China, Republic of Congo, Iran, Pakistan and the USA! 13 of the last 21 executions have been in the USA! Children with parents who are homosexual have the same advantages and the same expectations for health, adjustment, and development as children whose parents are heterosexual says The American Academy of Pediatrics Millions of children around the world miss out on their childhood as a result of poverty. It makes children more vulnerable to exploitation, abuse, violence, discrimination and stigmatization.
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Three in ten of nation's homeless adults report foster care history. Twenty-five percent of foster youth stated that they had been homeless at least on night within 2.5 to 4 years after existing foster care. Fifty-eight percent of all young adults accessing federally funded youth shelters had been in the foster care system Thirty-four percent of foster youth who had been homeless or lived in four or more placed within 12 to 18 months after exiting the foster care system. Twenty-five to forty percent of youth who become homeless each year identify themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LBGT). Homeless parents who report a history of foster care are almost twice as likely to have their own children placed in foster care as homeless people who were never in foster care. 40% of the homeless population is families. Average age of a homeless person is nine. The Urban Institute estimates that an estimated 1.35 million children will experience homelessness over the course of a year. Families in child welfare are disproportionately challenged by economic insecurity. As many as a third of the families served by the child welfare system have severe housing problems. There is no jurisdiction in the United States where a minimum wage job provides enough income for a household to afford the Fair Market Rent (FMR) for a two-bedroom home. NeedyKids.com is dedicated to the memory of Jerry Springer's Tweaky Dave & the Street Kids of Hollywood Bvd and is the on-line presence of Youth Escaping the Streets Inc, a 501 (c) (3) non profit EIN: 95-4322542 We do not use cookies to collect information about visitors . Any information obtained is not stored and is never given to any third party . We are not responsible for the content of external sites. ©2003 Neil in Hollywood
