Adoption is permanent; the assignment is temporary. Children who are not adopted by eighteen years of foster care age are eliminated from the system, and once they leave they are thrown into the world with no support to hold on to. The lack of adoption of older children within the foster care system stems from the personal concerns of the adopter and the psychological problems of the adoptees. However, encouraging parents to adopt older youth has a positive effect because it will stimulate stability and decrease behavioral and mental problems in the child's life. Initially, the original platform for conveying foster care principles was created in “The Placing Out System of the New York Children's Aid Society,” which launched the goal of caring for unstable individuals and “Approximately 30,000-40,000 youth leave the foster care system every year without a permanent, stable family to support them as they face the challenges of early adulthood” (Diehl 81). Furthermore, according to the most recent “Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System” from 2013, 296,833 children. aged between four and eighteen, considered older youth for adopted parents (Waterman 18), lived in the foster care system were 16 or 17 years old 20% of children live with this lifestyle (AFCARS Report No. 21). However, even if these numbers exist, the problem remains. Older children without a defined family are not adopted. Statistics show numbers well, but the one thing statistics don't show is perspective. When people look at these numbers, they shouldn't just see numbers but children in need of adoption. Despite the lack of adoption shown in the numbers of older young people, it cannot be ruled out that people who adopt have not taken it into consideration. However, in a sense, children are still homeless; without the stability of a loved one. Parents adopt younger children because they want to have the similar familiarity that a biological parent would have with their own child (Brind 323). These parents are normally unable to conceive on their own; however, while this is a positive outcome for the youngest children in the system because they receive loving families, it negatively affects older children. The fantasy would be that foster care shouldn't exist because parents would gladly invite a child with all the odds against them into their home so that in exchange the odds could be in their favor. On the other hand, for this type of effect to occur, people must be aware of the problem in question and must be able to give their opinion.