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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.
Too many will be further abused in systems that are supposed to protect them. And instead of being safely reunified with their families â or moved quickly into adoptive homes â many will languish for years in foster homes or institutions. On any given day, there are nearly 428,000 children in foster care in the United States. In 2015, over 670,000 children spent time in U.S. foster care. On average, children remain in state care for nearly two years and six percent of children in foster care have languished there for five or more years.