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Table 6: ADOPT
Date: September, 2006

 

Prior Relationship of Adoptive Parent(s) to Child
October 1, 2003 to September 30, 2004

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State
Prior Relationship of Adoptive Parent(s) to Child Total Missing
non-relative foster parent step-parent other relative % N N
% % % %
Alabama 54.5% 44.7% .0% .8% 100.0% 398 0
Alaska .0% 56.4% .0% 43.6% 100.0% 179 3
Arizona 32.6% 31.8% .0% 35.5% 100.0% 723 6
Arkansas1 .0% 89.2% .0% 10.8% 100.0% 204 127
California 4.8% 51.5% .1% 43.6% 100.0% 7754 0
Colorado 13.3% 55.9% .2% 30.6% 100.0% 958 0
Connecticut 33.1% 54.1% .0% 12.8% 100.0% 344 5
Delaware 26.0% 65.8% .0% 8.2% 100.0% 73 0
District of Columbia 2.1% 73.4% .0% 24.5% 100.0% 433 3
Florida 21.2% 38.5% .1% 40.2% 100.0% 3153 111
Georgia 9.0% 80.3% .1% 10.7% 100.0% 1251 18
Hawaii .3% 56.7% .3% 42.8% 100.0% 374 1
Idaho 46.0% 39.2% .0% 14.8% 100.0% 176 0
Illinois .0% 100.0% .0% .0% 100.0% 2227 0
Indiana 56.2% 29.5% .0% 14.3% 100.0% 1057 0
Iowa2 31.8% 68.0% .0% .2% 100.0% 1061 0
Kansas 8.3% 62.9% .0% 28.8% 100.0% 653 0
Kentucky 9.6% 88.8% .0% 1.6% 100.0% 803 2
Louisiana 13.8% 71.9% .0% 14.3% 100.0% 455 0
Maine 10.7% 73.9% .0% 15.3% 100.0% 307 0
Maryland 3.6% 57.5% .0% 38.8% 100.0% 914 0
Massachusetts .0% 99.6% .0% .4% 100.0% 812 0
Michigan 6.9% 53.9% .0% 39.2% 100.0% 2801 0
Minnesota 51.1% 17.7% .0% 31.2% 100.0% 603 0
Mississippi 7.4% 60.7% .0% 31.9% 100.0% 270 0
Missouri 5.1% 70.2% .2% 24.5% 100.0% 1326 65
Montana 1.6% 89.6% .0% 8.9% 100.0% 192 0
Nebraska1 3 19.4% 52.8% .0% 27.8% 100.0% 72 295
Nevada 6.2% 72.5% .0% 21.2% 100.0% 273 5
New Hampshire 11.8% 83.3% .0% 4.9% 100.0% 102 0
New Jersey 20.4% 79.6% .0% .0% 100.0% 1328 0
New Mexico 1.1% 82.3% .0% 16.6% 100.0% 265 0
New York1 .0% .0% .0% .0% .0% 0 4258
North Carolina 14.9% 70.7% .1% 14.3% 100.0% 1194 4
North Dakota 31.3% 67.2% .0% 1.6% 100.0% 128 0
Ohio1 14.8% 67.6% .0% 17.6% 100.0% 1536 665
Oklahoma 14.2% 45.7% .4% 39.7% 100.0% 1141 0
Oregon 36.1% 30.8% .0% 33.2% 100.0% 943 0
Pennsylvania 45.5% 43.0% .3% 11.2% 100.0% 1898 0
Puerto Rico 25.7% 48.0% 4.0% 22.3% 100.0% 475 0
Rhode Island1 4.4% 50.2% .0% 45.3% 100.0% 203 32
South Carolina 28.1% 70.8% .0% 1.1% 100.0% 359 0
South Dakota 16.3% 58.5% .0% 25.2% 100.0% 123 0
Tennessee 17.9% 63.5% .2% 18.4% 100.0% 890 1
Texas 26.4% 51.0% .0% 22.6% 100.0% 2556 0
Utah 14.8% 78.8% .0% 6.4% 100.0% 297 1
Vermont .0% 79.1% .0% 20.9% 100.0% 220 0
Virginia 8.8% 85.9% .0% 5.3% 100.0% 525 0
Washington1 1.6% 82.4% .1% 15.9% 100.0% 943 302
West Virginia 3.4% 77.1% .3% 19.3% 100.0% 384 0
Wisconsin 5.6% 73.3% .0% 21.1% 100.0% 1152 0
Wyoming 5.8% 78.8% .0% 15.4% 100.0% 52 4

 

1The data from this State is questionable due to the large percentage of missing data. Back
2Does not track non-welfare stepparent adoptions. Law defines relative as the fourth degree of consanguinity. Back
3Includes great aunt/uncle, great grandparent, great great great grandparent, great great aunt/uncle, great great great grandparent, great great great aunt/uncle, adoptive sibling, biological sibling, first and second cousins, grandparent, parent-in-law, aunt/uncle. Fictive kin (ie. Godparents) are not included. Back


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