Treasured Pearls: House Update

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We signed the contract on August 11th.

The sellers signed the contract on August 16th.

We heard from their bank asking for us to fill out a mortgage application on August 22nd.

We sent that back in on August 23rd.

They pre-approved us for a mortgage on August 29th.

Unfortunately, we are still waiting for their bank to approve the contract because it is a short sale.

Fortunately, we are in no rush to move, so it doesn't matter....

Yeah, right.

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/

Thursday, September 15, 2011

House Update

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