The state where a person was born has the greatest number of guardians in every jurisdiction.
A child born in Maryland, for example, has the highest chance of being adopted by a parent in a jurisdiction where the birth mother was the guardian.
In Alabama, the state with the highest number of people in prison, children born to the state’s most incarcerated parents have a 1 in 100 chance of becoming foster parents.
In California, the number of children born by single-parent homes has dropped to one in 7,000, and in Washington state, children are about one in 10,000.
The states with the lowest rate of foster care adoption include Louisiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, North Carolina and West Virginia.
The highest rate of adoption by a single-mother is in North Dakota, which has one in every 200 children.
The next states with a high number of single-parents are Alaska, Arizona, Florida, Kentucky, Maine, Minnesota, New Hampshire and New Mexico.
The third-highest rate is in Alabama.
The state with no single- parent households has one of the lowest rates of child adoption.