Treasured Pearls: Sunday Snapshot

So yesterday, CP asked the boys if he had ever shown them how to burn paper with a magnifying glass. They said no. So, in short order, CP had shown JA and AT about the wonders of magnifying glasses and the sun! They managed to catch a piece of newspaper completely on fire (like big flames and all)! This "sparked" their interest in more fire play. So today, I worked with them to burn different things in our small grill (much safer than the driveway!!). The girls stayed a safe distance away, so no photos of them. Here are some of the pictures.

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/

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Sunday Snapshot - Playing with Fire!

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