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Feb 2 2010, 9:38 PM EST
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raised by grandparents.
Enjoy a quality of home environment superior to all the other groups.
Have superior access to health care compared to all other groups.
There are more than 118,000 children in public foster care awaiting adoption (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2005).
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Adopted children do as well as or better than their non-adopted counterparts, according to a 1994 study by the Search Institute, a Minneapolis-based public policy research organization providing leadership, knowledge and resources to promote healthy children, youth and communities. This study, the largest examination of adopted adolescents yet undertaken, concludes:
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was adopted, had adopted a child, or had placed a child for adoption. (Evan B. Donaldson Institute, 1997)
It is estimated that about
1 million children
in the United States live with adoptive parents.
(Stolley, 1993)
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family.There are 120,000 families looking to adopt each year.
6 in 10 Americans
have had personal experience with adoption, meaning that they themselves, a family member, or a close friend was adopted, had adopted a child, or had placed a child for adoption.
(Evan B. Donaldson Institute, 1997)
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Feb 2 2010, 9:29 PM EST
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There are 147 million orphans in the world just waiting for a family.
There are 120,000 families looking to adopt each year.
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