Both girls had at different times lived in the same foster home, according to their foster mother, Lula Galloway, 60.
Foster children are given anti-psychotics at a rate nine times higher than children not in foster care, according to a 2010 16-state analysis by Rutgers University of nearly 300,000 foster children".
In many ways, Mrs. Jurado is emblematic of those who adopt the city's foster children: mostly middle-aged women who used to be foster parents, according to a study of city adoptions by Trudy B. Festinger, a social work professor at New York University.
Children who entered Los Angles County's foster system in 2007 had a median stay of 13 months in foster care, according to county information collected by UC Berkeley.
One of the children, a 6-year-old boy identified as S. M. who was placed into foster care last year, was hospitalized in Westchester in January, after "misbehavior" in his foster home, according to the complaint.
Institutional care has been shown to cost on average three times more than foster care according to an EU and WHO funded survey on the costs of institutional and foster care among EU countries in 2003.
From December 1998 until March 1999, Shakeem wound up placed with five foster homes, according to his records.
Dentmond was a high school sophomore who had lived in foster care, according to police reports.
From 2009 until 2013, 17 child deaths occurred in Hennepin County foster homes, according to the lawsuit.
As of March 31, 2000, there were 588,000 children in foster care, according to the Administration for Children and Families.
In 1999, 3.30 children out of every 1,000 entered foster care, according to one study, down from 3.87 in 1994.
