Although for some November is just another month of waiting, longing to have such a family to enjoy the holidays with, as well as have a family 365 days a year. They are an estimated 800,000 plus children in the United States in foster care waiting to be adopted, waiting to be a part of a family who will love and care for them.
This may be the ideal situation one would think with the number of children in foster care, there would be people rushing to adoption agency's to adopt a child into their family. Not all foster children are as blessed to find a loving home who treats them as a part of the family and not make them feel as the outsider of the family. Frankly speaking 3 out of 10 children in America are very fortunate to find the "ideal" loving family, then there's the sad other numbers in the equation of those who are adopted by families who abuse them, mistreat, and sometimes cause fatal harm to them.
There are many wrongful reasons to consider adopting a child for example being selfish, such as the mere thought of being able to have a conversation with a colleague or other family members, sharing you have adopted a child into your family (not wanting to give the child the love they deserve), considering adopting a child to supplement income by becoming a foster parent. Foster children as with all children deserve a loving home, a home where they are not considered a "meat market" for someone to gain financially from them.
Every child that enters the foster care system wants to know someone not only cares about them but loves them as much as their own biological children. Children don't enter the foster care system by choice, so it is important for adults who consider adoption to see them in this way. It's not the child's fault they end up where they are in the system it's up to one loving person after another to make a difference in a child's life forever.
November is National Adoption Awareness Month, if you are unable to adopt a child at this time or in the near future, find an organization that donates to the Foster Care Children Foundation and make a donation, or if you know someone who would make an excellent foster parent share the awareness of how important one adoption can change a child/children lives forever.
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