One of the biggest drivers of those separations is drug abuse. And we are aggressively going after these issues. And partially as a result of our work, Number of foster children has dropped from 425,000 to 325,000. because there's more kids who are doing early preventative services on and intervening early with parents who have drug addiction problems. Thank you, Mr. Secretary. I yield back Mr. Davis. (37:39–37:46)
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