State Contexts and Foster Care Adoption Rates.

ABSTRACT: Prior research has examined associations between state adoption policies and assisted reproductive technology insurance coverage and foster care adoption rates, but knowledge of the relationships between state policies and contexts and foster care adoption is still limited. In this study, we test adoption subsidy policy, alternative means of family formation, and the demographic characteristics of potential adoptive parents and children as predictors of foster care adoption rates at the state-year level using data from the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System and other sources for 2005 to 2016. We use between-within models to obtain random effects estimates between states and fixed effects estimates within states. We find that states with higher average adoption subsidies

SUBMITTER: Potter MH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8274574 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature