ABSTRACT
This chapter evaluates placement patterns using the following events: onset, duration, and exit. It utilizes the attributes of place and time to better understand the risk of placement in relation to age. The chapter focuses on the national study of child and adolescent well-being data to describe what is known about the well-being of children who are admitted to foster care. It examines placement rates in relation to age, race and ethnicity, urbanicity, and poverty, and explores attributes of place as factors that are known to influence placement rates. The chapter examines counties with the largest absolute increase in the rate of placement to determine whether the age mix of children entering care changes when the likelihood of placement increases. It explores whether exit patterns follow age-specific patterns and provides separate estimates for the probability and relative rate of exit. The chapter examines placement rate for African American children living in high-poverty counties reaches almost 30 per 1,000.
