Primary colors are not a fundamental property of light but are related to the color vision system in animals. The human eye normally contains only three types of color photoreceptors (L, M and S) that are associated with specialized cone cells.
No. 15; Updated October 2015. Approximately 120,000 children are adopted each year in the United States. Children with physical, developmental, or emotional handicaps who were once considered difficult to place with a new family are now being adopted (special needs adoptions). Adoption helps many of these children to grow up in permanent families rather than in foster homes or institutions.
FACT SHEET: Improving Outcomes for Our Nationâs Foster Youth. On any given day, there are over 400,000 children in our nationâs foster care system with over 100,000 waiting to be adopted. Every year, 23,000 of these youth will age out of the system, never having found their forever families. We have seen that youth who age out of foster care without a permanent placement often face challenges with completing their education, unemployment, financial security and the criminal justice system.