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This dashboard covers 8 aspects of child adoption in Minnesota, California, New York, Texas, and USA as a country with the adoption data collected in fiscal year 2016 modified by Children’s Bureau (https://www.acf.hhs.gov/cb/resource/adoption-data-2016).
Proportion of those Receiving an Adoption Subsidy from 2012 to 2016
Distribution of Structure of the Adoptive Family of those Children Adopted During 2016
Distribution of Finalization Age of those Children Adopted During 2016
Distribution of Adoptive Parent(s) Relationship to those Children Adopted During 2016
Distribution of Race/Ethnicity of those Children Adopted During 2016
Distribution of Gender of those Children Adopted from 2012 to 2016
Proportion of Special-Needs Children Adopted from 2012 to 2016
Time Between Termination of Parental Rights (TPR) and Adoption Finalization of those Children Adopted During 2016
Subsidy
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Plot
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Summary
- New York and California have high adoption subsidy proportion while proportion from Texas is similar to total USA and one from Minnesota is much lower.
- There was a decrease of subsidy proportion in 2014 across the states, but it was restored a year after.
Family
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Plot
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Summary
- Married couple and single female are the most common structure of adoptive family.
- New York particularly has high single female adoptive families, and Texas and overall total have lowest proportions of unmarried adoptive families.
Age
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Plot
Column
Summary
- Adoption proportion is inversely proportional to the age except age less than 1. The proportionate relationship may be exponential decrease.
Parent
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Plot
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Summary
- Foster parent is the most common case except Minnesota, and other relative is the second most common case. Step parent adoption is very low compared to other cases.
- Minnesota somehow has very high other relative adoption as the most common and non-relative as the second most common. Forster parent is much lower than other states and total USA.
Race/Ethnicity
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By State
By Race
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Summary
- Overall, White, Hispanic, and Black/African American adoption are the most common while Native Hawaiian/Other pacific islander, American Indian/Alaskan Native, and Asian adoption is largely less common.
- California and Texas have Hispanic as the highest, New York has Black/African American as the highest, and Minnesota and total USA have white as the highest.
Gender
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Summary
- There was a slight increase in female adoption proportion in 2014, then it decreased back a year after.
- Minnesota has higher favor on female adoption than other states and total USA.
Special-Needs
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Plot
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Summary
- New York has very low special-needs children adoption, while other states and total USA have high proportion. There is a change that the data is entered wrong for some states.
Time
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Summary
- Between 6 and 11 months is the most common time taken.
- The proportion increases to 6-11 months then it overall decreases as the time increases.