Treasured Pearls: Day 15 - The Klemstines

Thursday, December 15, 2011

Day 15 - The Klemstines

We are Chris and Christine, best friends, married 16 years, blessed with 3 beautiful boys, Cole, age 12, Graham, age 10 and Jude, age 5. We are adopting from China because we believe we are immeasurably blessed and that God has called us to share our blessings with an orphan, that He knew before the beginning of time would be ours. We are currently waiting to see who He brings to us and waiting for our papers to come back from immigration. Our adoption process has already stirred my best friend in the world to begin her own adoption process. We are so blessed and so excited to meet our daughter and sister and friend!

You can donate to our adoption via paypal. Just use our e-mail klemstines@comcast.net

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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/