In the middle 1990s under Clinton there was a law passed called the Adoption and Safe Families Act. It stated that if a child had been in care continuously for 15 months of the past 22 months—I think that is how it was stated—they would go to court to consider termination of parental rights. So previously, children could drift along for four or five years from foster home to foster home with no parental progress toward permanency. Then they set a time limit and said that after a year and a half, if the parents weren't making progress they would go to court, consider terminating their parental rights, and free the child for adoption.
When I showed the graph there was a real increase around that time. Following the middle 1990s it doubled. That was largely the basis for that.