Treasured Pearls: Day 4

Sunday, December 04, 2011

Day 4 - The Sammons

We are a family of 7 going on 8. Our 18 month old daughter Ivy is in Hengzhou China waiting for us. Ivy has a very complex heart condition and China has declared her inoperable. We have been blessed to call her our daighter and we can not wait to bring her home!

There is a paypal Donate button on the top left of our blog where you can help us bring Ivy home.

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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.
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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/