text: Not true, Jimbob.  All foster children under the age of 5 are adopted out within the first year that they're taken into custody.  Visit the OCS statistical website and you'll see for yourself.  Every year Alaska OCS, on average, adopts out 300 children and they receive approximately $1.5 million in adoption subsidies from the federal government under the Fostering Connections Adoptions Act, which was passed by Congress in 2008.