A look at foster care in South Carolina, by the numbers:

- 5,678: Children in foster care, as of July 31

- 1,800: Licensed foster homes

- 473: Foster care social workers

- 427: Children adopted from foster care in 2006

- 71: Number of S.C. children adopted in 2006 who had been in foster care two years or less

- 45.2: Average months a child spends in foster care before adoption

- 41: Number of teens adopted from foster care

- 6 1/2: Average age of children when adopted

-  1:  the most important number to remember... each individual child, deserves a childhood!