Expand Your Family
* Read family stories to learn how adoption has been a blessing.
* Get more information on adoption. Resources include a Beginner's Guide to Adoption, a fact sheet, links and more.
* Find National Adoption Day events in your area. Events include adoption awareness classes, celebrations and more.
* Find the information you need if you are considering placing your child for adoption, are a member of a birth family, are an adoptive parent, or are an adopted person.
* Consider being a foster parent. Foster parents give love, care and support to over 500,000 children in the US.
Since this is National Adoption Month (also in Español), now is a great time to consider expanding your family and sharing your love with a child.
"By choice, we have become a family, first in our hearts, and finally in breath and being. Great expectations are good; great experiences are better." - Richard Fischer, adoptive parent
Published by Karama C. Neal
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Abuse Within America's Foster Care System - Children at Risk (Part 2)The lack of accountability shifts blame to a parent when the parent carries the stigma of the foster care system, hence the cycle of abuse is repeated by the system, itself.
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- National Adoption DayBackground on National Adoption Day, and becoming an adoptive parent.
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- Foster Care System
- Licensed Foster Care Parent Requirements in Tucson, Arizona
- Becoming an Ohio Foster Parent: Time Frame of Application Process
- Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute
- How to Purcahse the Right Home for Your Family
- November is National Adoption Month
- November is National Adoption Month.