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Table 6: ADOPT
Date: March, 2004

Prior Relationship of Adoptive Parent(s) to Child

October 1, 2001 to September 30, 2002

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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 55.8% 44.2% .0% .0% 100.0% 249 0
Alaska .0% 62.8% .0% 37.2% 100.0% 223 1
Arizona1 37.7% 26.2% .0% 36.1% 100.0% 740 53
Arkansas1 .0% 86.8% .0% 13.2% 100.0% 151 146
California 5.5% 47.5% .1% 46.9% 100.0% 8741 0
Colorado 11.6% 56.5% .1% 31.8% 100.0% 919 0
Connecticut 25.7% 60.8% .0% 13.4% 100.0% 610 7
Delaware 27.8% 57.9% .0% 14.3% 100.0% 133 0
District of Columbia .4% 72.6% .0% 27.0% 100.0% 248 4
Florida1 25.6% 36.0% .0% 38.3% 100.0% 308 1999
Georgia 14.5% 75.0% .0% 10.5% 100.0% 1091 6
Hawaii 1.4% 47.4% .3% 51.0% 100.0% 365 1
Idaho 40.7% 38.1% .0% 21.2% 100.0% 118 0
Illinois .0% 99.8% .0% .2% 100.0% 3633 0
Indiana 47.7% 32.9% .0% 19.3% 100.0% 920 0
Iowa2 32.2% 67.8% .0% .0% 100.0% 882 0
Kansas 13.2% 60.7% .0% 26.1% 100.0% 471 0
Kentucky 31.1% 68.7% .0% .2% 100.0% 556 3
Louisiana 15.6% 75.2% .0% 9.2% 100.0% 487 0
Maine 84.6% .3% .0% 15.0% 100.0% 306 5
Maryland 3.1% 51.1% .1% 45.7% 100.0% 938 0
Massachusetts .0% 99.1% .0% .9% 100.0% 808 0
Michigan 8.9% 54.0% .0% 37.1% 100.0% 2847 0
Minnesota 47.5% 27.7% .3% 24.5% 100.0% 625 1
Mississippi1 .0% .0% .0% .0% .0% 0 227
Missouri 8.6% 66.7% .5% 24.2% 100.0% 1499 43
Montana 2.0% 85.8% .0% 12.1% 100.0% 247 0
Nebraska1, 3 10.9% 43.5% 6.5% 39.1% 100.0% 46 262
Nevada 12.3% 66.7% .0% 21.0% 100.0% 252 1
New Hampshire 14.0% 78.1% .0% 7.9% 100.0% 114 0
New Jersey 17.4% 82.6% .0% .0% 100.0% 1378 0
New Mexico 45.1% 28.0% .0% 26.9% 100.0% 275 0
New York1 .0% .0% .0% .0% .0% 0 3791
North Carolina 22.8% 55.7% .1% 21.4% 100.0% 1320 4
North Dakota 52.6% 47.4% .0% .0% 100.0% 137 0
Ohio1 16.1% 67.5% .0% 16.4% 100.0% 1441 955
Oklahoma 14.8% 42.9% .6% 41.7% 100.0% 1009 2
Oregon 25.6% 37.0% .0% 37.4% 100.0% 1115 0
Pennsylvania 18.3% 76.6% .0% 5.1% 100.0% 2020 0
Puerto Rico 24.8% 56.1% 7.8% 11.3% 100.0% 408 0
Rhode Island 9.9% 54.0% .0% 36.1% 100.0% 252 4
South Carolina 32.3% 67.4% .0% .3% 100.0% 344 0
South Dakota 17.2% 72.4% .0% 10.3% 100.0% 145 0
Tennessee 20.0% 71.5% .0% 8.6% 100.0% 922 0
Texas 24.8% 49.7% .1% 25.4% 100.0% 2297 0
Utah 26.7% 65.4% .0% 7.8% 100.0% 344 2
Vermont 6.5% 81.7% .0% 11.8% 100.0% 153 0
Virginia 15.8% 77.8% .0% 6.4% 100.0% 423 1
Washington1 .0% 100.0% .0% .0% 100.0% 634 443
West Virginia 2.8% 78.7% .0% 18.6% 100.0% 361 0
Wisconsin 14.3% 73.5% .1% 12.1% 100.0% 1028 0
Wyoming 9.8% 74.5% .0% 15.7% 100.0% 51 1

1The data from this State is questionable due to the large percentage of missing data.Back

2Law defines relatives 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, first and second cousins, grandparent, parent-in-law, aunt/uncle.Back

Fictive kin (ie. Godparents) are not included.