Women’s History Month
- 48% of foster youth are identified as female
- Teenage girls in the foster care system are 2x as likely to get pregnant before age 19 than those not in foster care
- 2.19 girls per 100,000 die at the hands of child abuse
- 70% of female foster youth will become pregnant by 2021
- 1 in 4 former foster youth will experience PTSD