Treasured Pearls: Day 12 - The Brenn's

Monday, December 12, 2011

Day 12 - The Brenn's

Today is the 12th day of The 24 Days of Giving. If you don't know what this is all about, please go read this post and this post

We are the Brenn family, we have 6 children, almost 7. We adopted our daughter from China in 2006, son from China 2007, daughter from Ethiopia 2009, son from China 2010, and now we wait on our 2nd daughter from China, we hope to travel in March. You can find a chip-in on our blog at www.redeemedmama.blogspot.com

Thank you so much for considering us.
Tammy From Mississippi

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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/