Predicting Foster Child Exit Outcomes

This project is only a predictive exercise, and I cannot claim any causalities. For instance, I found that the number of days spent in foster care is important in predicting the exit outcome of a child. However, I cannot claim that staying longer in foster care causes a child to exit one way or another. There can be other unaccounted variables that impact both the length of stay and the exit outcome, such as the child’s personality. The fact that the number of days is predictive of outcome exit is not surprising when we consider that the outcomes include adoption and emancipation. Length of stay is correlated with age, and the age of a child is highly predictive whether the child ages out of the foster care system or gets adopted. Related Work