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Are there support groups that Virginiaâs foster or adoptive parents can access? Information on Virginia's children. There are approximately 5,000 children in foster care in Virginia. Of these children and youth, 1,700 have the goal of adoption, and more than 700 of are waiting for adoptive families. These children are from all cultural and socio-economic backgrounds.
Each week, nearly 60,000 children in the United States are reported as abused or neglected, with nearly 900,000 confirmed abuse victims in 2004. About 520,000 of those children end up in foster care each year -- double the number 25 years ago. Approximately 800,000 children every year come in contact with the foster care system. Watch ABC News' and Primetime's special series on foster care, A Call to Action: Saving Our Children, beginning Thursday, June 1.