Treasured Pearls: New Waiting Child Lists

Tuesday, May 01, 2007

New Waiting Child Lists

Great Wall China Adoptions has received their new waiting child list. You can find out more about these kids at http://www.gwca.org/why_great_wall/waiting_child_program/list

Hope for Children has also received their list and they have one child on there who I would love to see find a family quickly. His name is Jiang Chun Xian and he is 6 yrs old. He is currently in foster care and has a special need which is fairly easy to manage. You can get more info on him at http://www.hopeforchildren.org/current_waiting_child.htm

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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/