There are 428,000 youth in the U.S. foster care system, 112,000 of whom are waiting to be adopted. AdoptUSKids’ maintains a national photo listing service for all of those children. Since the project launched in 2002, more than 26,000 children who were once photolisted on adoptuskids.org have been adopted and nearly 39,000 families have registered to adopt...Continue reading
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Infertility and Adoption: Sometimes Bonding is Hard
Dear Mr. Dad: My wife and I desperately want to be parents. But after years of trying and tens of thousands spent on fertility treatments, our doctor is telling us that we should either consider using donor sperm or eggs or adopt. We’re considering those options, but I’m finding this whole thing rather emasculating and...Continue reading