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Adoption and Foster Care Statistics: Foster Care and Adoption Statistics Current Reports from The Administration for Children and Families 
Adoption Fact Sheet
Adoption Statistics: Access to Adoption Records State Summaries
Census Bureau 
Child Care Now: Fact sheets on child care, head starts and early child education 
Child Fatality Data: Child Fatality available by State 
Children in the States: Data related to children at the state and local levels (book review) 
ChildrenNow: A source developed by Children Now on children's issues (including link to archive of press releases)
Chemical dependency: Fact Sheet 
Child Abuse and Neglect: National Data Archive
Crime Statistics
Drug Abuse: National Press Release on drug trend, ecstasy use among teens 
Drug Facts: From The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), a component of the Executive Office of the President was established by the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988.
Family Well Being: Snapshots of America's Families 
First Long Term Study on the Effect of Aftercare on Foster Care Youth: The results of a 15-year study that tracked 93 high-risk foster care youth who received long-term aftercare through CV's Work Appreciation for Youth (WAY) Program.
Kid counts census data 
Incarcerated Parents and Their Children: Presents data from the 1997 Surveys of Inmates in State and Federal Correctional Facilities concerning inmates with minor children.
National CASA: Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) volunteer is a trained citizen who is appointed by a judge to represent the best interests of abused and neglected children in court.
National FactSheet 2003: Making Children a National Priority
Pregnancy and Drug Use Trend: NIDA conducted a nationwide hospital survey to determine the extent of drug abuse among pregnant women in the United States
Prosecuting Teens As Adults
State Factsheet 2003
The State of the World's Children 2001