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Table 6: ADOPT
Date: September, 2005

 

Prior Relationship of Adoptive Parent(s) to Child

October 1, 2002 to September 30, 2003

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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 47.7% 49.8% .3% 2.1% 100.0% 329 0
Alaska 2.0% 57.1% .0% 41.0% 100.0% 205 3
Arizona 30.9% 37.2% .0% 31.9% 100.0% 812 27
Arkansas1 .0% 87.2% .0% 12.8% 100.0% 226 159
California 4.8% 50.7% .1% 44.4% 100.0% 7433 0
Colorado 11.4% 57.5% .2% 30.9% 100.0% 1024 0
Connecticut 28.2% 59.9% .0% 11.9% 100.0% 337 5
Delaware 15.8% 72.3% .0% 11.9% 100.0% 101 0
District of Columbia .9% 70.6% .0% 28.5% 100.0% 228 12
Florida1 20.9% 48.4% .0% 30.8% 100.0% 91 2695
Georgia 14.1% 73.8% .0% 12.1% 100.0% 1040 51
Hawaii .6% 45.9% .3% 53.1% 100.0% 318 0
Idaho 41.3% 26.8% .0% 31.9% 100.0% 138 0
Illinois .0% 99.6% .0% .4% 100.0% 2701 0
Indiana 48.7% 36.3% .0% 15.0% 100.0% 780 0
Iowa1 30.7% 69.0% .0% .3% 100.0% 1130 0
Kansas 9.3% 63.0% .2% 27.5% 100.0% 546 0
Kentucky 15.5% 84.0% .0% .5% 100.0% 612 0
Louisiana 14.7% 75.1% .0% 10.3% 100.0% 497 0
Maine 91.2% .0% .0% 8.8% 100.0% 377 1
Maryland 4.0% 56.1% .0% 39.9% 100.0% 734 0
Massachusetts .0% 99.3% .0% .7% 100.0% 733 0
Michigan 7.3% 54.2% .0% 38.5% 100.0% 2622 0
Minnesota 54.9% 20.1% .3% 24.7% 100.0% 643 1
Mississippi1 .0% .0% .0% 100.0% 100.0% 7 175
Missouri 6.3% 63.4% .4% 29.9% 100.0% 1351 52
Montana 1.3% 90.6% .0% 8.0% 100.0% 224 0
Nebraska1 3 29.4% 51.0% .0% 19.6% 100.0% 51 229
Nevada 11.9% 65.4% .0% 22.7% 100.0% 295 1
New Hampshire 8.4% 81.7% .0% 9.9% 100.0% 131 0
New Jersey 22.5% 77.5% .0% .0% 100.0% 935 0
New Mexico 1.4% 77.3% .0% 21.4% 100.0% 220 0
New York1 .0% .0% .0% .0% .0% 0 3862
North Carolina 18.7% 67.6% .1% 13.6% 100.0% 1292 4
North Dakota 31.7% 66.7% .0% 1.7% 100.0% 120 0
Ohio1 14.8% 62.7% .0% 22.5% 100.0% 1492 928
Oklahoma 17.7% 39.1% .3% 42.9% 100.0% 1152 0
Oregon 31.2% 33.2% .0% 35.6% 100.0% 849 0
Pennsylvania 32.7% 62.7% .1% 4.5% 100.0% 1946 0
Puerto Rico 26.0% 49.7% 6.8% 17.6% 100.0% 443 0
Rhode Island 8.4% 63.4% .0% 28.2% 100.0% 262 2
South Carolina 28.9% 43.6% .0% 27.5% 100.0% 280 0
South Dakota 21.5% 68.8% .0% 9.7% 100.0% 144 0
Tennessee 18.1% 74.2% .1% 7.5% 100.0% 954 0
Texas 25.6% 47.7% .3% 26.4% 100.0% 2503 1
Utah 18.8% 72.2% .0% 9.1% 100.0% 309 2
Vermont .6% 79.0% .0% 20.4% 100.0% 167 0
Virginia 13.4% 81.2% .0% 5.4% 100.0% 485 2
Washington1 .0% 98.7% .0% 1.3% 100.0% 781 534
West Virginia 2.5% 73.6% .0% 23.9% 100.0% 322 0
Wisconsin 8.9% 76.7% .0% 14.4% 100.0% 1187 0
Wyoming 1.9% 81.5% .0% 16.7% 100.0% 54 2


1The data from this State is questionable due to the large percentage of missing data. Back
2Law 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. Back
Fictive kin (ie. Godparents) are not included.

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