Article: FOSTER-CARE RATE HIGH STATE SECOND NATIONALLY FOR PERCENTAGE OF KIDS NOT LIVING WITH PARENTS.(Local)

Byline: Lynn Bartels Rocky Mountain News Staff Writer

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CORRECTION PUBLISHED AUGUST 9, 1997 FOLLOWS: A story on page 6A (16A cq) Friday should have said the number of children processed through the state's foster-care system in 1995 was 13,230. The state had 986,116 residents under the age of 18 in the last census. cq designates an omission or unpublished correction.

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Colorado has the nation's second-highest percentage of kids in foster care, according to a study released Thursday.

Fourteen of every 1,000 kids in Colorado do not live with their parents, the study said.

Illinois has the most children per ...

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