Treasured Pearls: Thankful Thursday

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Thankful Thursday

Today is Veteran's Day. In my immediate family, the only Veteran is my dad, who served two years back in the 50's. I have numerous other relatives and ancestors who fought in wars all the way back to the Revolutionary War.

Today, I am thankful for all of the men and women in uniform who are willing to put their life on the line to give me the freedoms I take for granted so very often (like being able to freely write this blog).

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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/