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DID YOU KNOW? By: Carrie Craft

November 18, 2006, will mark the 7th year for National Adoption Day. Through the help of adoption professionals, child advocates, judges, and attorneys, thousands of children in foster care will finalize adoption and become part of a permanent home and family. the goals for this National Adoption Day include:

  • Finalize adoptions from foster care in all 50 states.
  • Celebrate and honor all families that adopt.
  • Raise awareness about the 118,000 children in foster care waiting for adoption.
  • Encourage others to adopt children from foster care.
  • Build collaboration among local adoption agencies, courts, and advocacy organizations.
  • Communicate availability and need for post-adoptive services.

I hope that this National Adoption Day is as successful as last year. In 2005, 3,300 adoptions were finalized from foster care in 227 events in 45 states and the District of Columbia.

How are you celebrating National Adoption Day?

A FEW ADOPTION FACTS:

The following adoption facts were obtained from the National Council for Adoption. To view the list in its entirety (with sources), visit the NCFA web-site at www.ncfa-usa.org/adoptioncontent.html

There are between one and two million infertile and fertile couples and individuals who would like to adopt children. According to a survey by the National Council for Adoption (NCFA) there were 54,492 unrelated adoptions (adoptions by people not related to the child adopted) of American children in 1996. (NCFA)

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In addition, date from the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the U.S. Department of State indicate there were 17,000 foreign born children adopted by Americans in Fiscal Year 1999. International adoptions have been rising steadily from 6,536 in Fiscal Year 1992, the decade low-point, to the latest year, an all-time high. Additional adoptions by Americans may have taken place but not be counted in these numbers because the Americans adopted while living outside the U.S. (NCFA)

Of the 54,492 unrelated domestic adoptions, approximately one half (23,537) were adoptions of healthy infants (under 2 years of age) of all races and ethnic backgrounds. The remaining were older kids and children with "special needs" (physical, mental, or emotional disabilities, part of a sibling group, etc.) (NCFA)

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INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES, POEMS & VERSES:

Not flesh of my flesh,
nor bone of my bone,
But still miraculously my own.
Never forget for a single minute,
You didn't grow under my heart--
but in it.
--Fleur Conkling Heylinger

You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether of not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
--Max Ehrmann - Desiderata

I know God won't give me anything I can't handle.
I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
-- Mother Teresa



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Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls.
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go
switft and far.
Let your bending in the archers hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves the bow that is stable.
-- Kahlil Gibran



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I prayed for this child, and the Lord has granted me what I asked of him.
--1 Samuel 1:27

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find;
knock and the door will be opened to you.
For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds;
and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.
--Matthew 7:7-8

If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed.....
nothing shall be impossible unto you.
--Matthew 17:20

An invisible red thread connects those who are destined to meet,
regardless of time, place, or circumstance.
The thread may stretch or tangle, but it will never break.
--An ancient Chinese belief

Of all the rights of women,
the greatest is to be a mother.
--Lin Yutang

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