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The National Adoption Day ceremony transformed the courthouse’s 11th floor, which on most days is the backdrop to criminal cases, into a Christmas parade. The laughter of children reverberated ...
On National Adoption Day courts and communities in the United States come together to finalize thousands of adoption of children from foster care.More than 300 events are held each year on the Saturday before Thanksgiving in November, in all 50 US states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico to finalize the adoptions of children in foster care.
Image credits: gays_with_kids "In the UK, adoption is the future plan for about 5% of the children in foster care," Khalida says. "Across the Atlantic, in the USA, this number is around 2%.
Since its inception in 2000, more than 75,000 children have been adopted on National Adoption Day across the United States. For more information Saint Francis Ministries
Child harvesting or baby harvesting refers to the systematic sale of human children, typically for adoption by families in the developed world, but sometimes for other purposes, including trafficking. The term covers a wide variety of situations and degrees of economic, social, and physical coercion.
According to the National Adoption Day website, it is a grassroots effort to raise awareness of the more than 108,000 children waiting to be adopted from foster care in the United States.
Jessica McClure Morales (born March 26, 1986; widely known as "Baby Jessica" in 1987 [1]) fell into a well in her aunt's backyard in Midland, Texas, on October 14, 1987, at the age of 18 months. Over the next 56 hours, rescuers worked to free her from the 8 in (20 cm) well casing , about 22 ft (7 m) below grade.
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