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Waiting Children and Lots of Great Music on TV
Watch, Tivo, Tape, Record. Make sure you get to see this great special coming up on CBS next Friday. CBS in conjunction with the Dave Thomas Foundation for waiting children is putting on a terrific...
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Waiting Children – Stats and more
I always get confused when I read the stats about waiting children. Everyone seems to agree that there are about 500,000 children in foster care right now, but the numbers differ when you look at how...
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Waiting Children – Stats and more – Part II
How many children were in foster care on September 30,2005? 513,000 Continuing from my previous posts regarding the statistics of children in foster care I found these numbers(below) on The AFCARS...
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Waiting Children on Adoption.com
Adoption.com has its own photo listing of foster adopt children that you can access here. The waiting children are shown state by state, (and also by country) and you can see if there are children in...
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A day in the real life
A few years ago, the state adoption worker that placed Kory and Mackenzie with us, asked me to come and speak to the workers that placed children with adoptive families. Her request seemed simple. Make...
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Adopting medically fragile children
When we were going through our list of “criteria” for which children we could take into our home, and which we couldn’t one of the things at the top of our not list was medically fragile children. I...
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Foster care adoption statitics
With National Adoption Awareness month coming up (more blogs on this coming in the near future), I decided to do some checking on foster care adoption statistics. It is still a fairly bleak picture....
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You have to ‘dopt me
This morning I had an appointment for a check up on my knee. Two weeks ago I had a big fluid filled lump on my knee cap. This is not terribly unusual since I have inherited bad joints from my...
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Waiting Children from Oregon on The Adoption.com Photolisting
Great news for waiting children in Oregon just in time for National Adoption Month! The Adoption.com Photolisting is excited to announce that the State of Oregon is now featuring it’s waiting children...
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Fear of Foster Adoption?
Sometimes, it feels like people are surprised when others adopt children from foster care. As a parent who has, I can honestly say that I do not understand that mentality. I know that there is a lot of...
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