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Podcast: Faytene TV
Episode: Adoption and Foster Care
Description: Today in Canada, there are over 30,000 foster children awaiting a permanent adoptive home. Here are some more stats on the issue:In any given month there are almost 9,300 children and youth in foster care in Ontario alone, with 800 to 1,000 aging out of the system every year. Manitoba has the highest provincial average of 33.2 for every 1,000 children in foster care, followed by the Northwest Territories, the Yukon, Saskatchewan and Nunavut. Over 50% of foster children are indigenous, despite them being under 8% of the national child population. All foster children, however, who...