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Adoption Exhibit 30
Duration(1) Free for Adoption of Children Awaiting Adoption,
1990 VCIS Survey

1990 Reporting States Under 6 months 6 Months to 1 Year 1-2 Years 2 Years and Over Duration Unknown Duration Total Median Time In Months (2)
Alabama 99 79 41 114 0 333 11.1
Alaska              
Arizona              
Arkansas              
California 27 50 189 1,337 1 1,604 24.4
Colorado              
Connecticut              
Delaware              
D.C.              
Florida              
Georgia 138 0 378 326 0 842 21.0
Hawaii              
Idaho              
Illinois              
Indiana              
Iowa              
Kansas              
Kentucky              
Louisiana              
Maine              
Maryland              
Massachusetts              
Michigan              
Minnesota 84 45 131 99 12 371 16.6
Mississippi 35 49 28 34 0 146 10.7
Missouri 73 104 222 456 0 855 24.1
Montana              
Nebraska              
Nevada              
New Hampshire              
New Jersey              
New Mexico              
New York 714 438 366 381 0 1,899 9.2
North Carolina              
North Dakota              
Ohio              
Oklahoma              
Oregon              
Pennsylvania 154 98 209 640 0 1,101 24.1
Puerto Rico              
Rhode Island 69 14 28 97 0 208 21.0
South Carolina              
South Dakota 88 64 44 21 1 218 7.9
Tennessee 24 26 69 468 0 587 24.4
Texas 136 83 154 180 0 553 16.5
Utah 6 10 24 26 2 68 20.5
Vermont 11 6 12 2 0 31 10.5
Virginia              
Washington              
West Virginia              
Wisconsin 73 32 29 48 0 182 9.4
Wyoming              
Reporting States Total 1,731 1,098 1,924 4,229 16 8,998 22.4
Percent 19.2% 12.2% 21.4% 47.0% 0.2% 100.0%  
Number of Reporting States 15            
  1. Length of time is defined as time spent in continuous substitute care; states are instructed that temporary visit/furloughs are not to be considered as breaks in continuity.
  2. Median time free for adoption, reported in months. Because the width of one of the question categories has no clear upper limit, under some circumstances only a lower limit may be computed for the median. These cases are indicated by a greater-than sign (>).

The median is calculated based upon the following formula:

Md=Lmd + (Md# - CFmd) x imd
        fmd

In other words, the Median time free (Md) equals the Lower Limit of the Median class (Lmd), plus the product of the Median number (Md#) minus the cumulative frequency of the class preceding the Median (CFmd), divided by the frequency of the median class (fmd), multiplied by the width of the median class (imd). The resulting calculation was then rounded to one decimal point.