Troy Anderson, Los Angeles Daily News
- Nearly 90 percent of all children in Los Angeles County’s foster-care system are minorities, drawing growing concern that hospitals and child welfare agencies are performing the vast majority of drug screening tests on low-income, minority pregnant women who seek public health care.
While only 10 percent of the county’s general population is African-American, African-American children make up nearly 36 percent of all children in the county’s foster-care system.
The county trend mirrors state and national figures that show children of ethnic minorities in foster care – especially African-Americans, Latinos and American Indians – outpace the number in the general population.
