Treasured Pearls: Another Waiting Child

Thursday, March 01, 2007

Another Waiting Child

Well, since we can't adopt another child right now, I have realized that my job is to advocate for those who wait. The little boy on my mind and heart now I have named "Happy". He is with Holt International and is 5.5 yrs old. To read more about him please click on http://www.holtintl.org/cgi/photolisting/index.cgi and he is listed as B06_145. He has been on their list for a LONG time. Do you have room in your home for this special child?

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Orphan Statistics

Inter-country adoption has decreased 59 percent from its high in 2004, due primarily to restrictions by sending countries.
81.5 million Americans have considered adoption. If just 1 in 500 of these adults adopted, every waiting child would have a permanent family.
Every year more than 23,000 children age out of foster care, leaving them without families of their own.
The average waiting child is 7.5 years old.
Last year, nearly 9,000 children were adopted internationally
Of the estimated 238,280 children who exited foster care during 2013, the median amount of time spent in care was 21.8 months.
In 2013, California and Texas were the two U.S. states with the most children in public foster care waiting for adoption.
As of 2013, an estimated 17.7 million children worldwide had lost one or both parents to AIDS. Most of these children live in sub-Saharan Africa.
The births of nearly 230 million children under age 5 worldwide (about one in three) have never been recorded, depriving them of their right to a name and nationality
http://showhope.org/9-stats-about-the-orphan-crisis/