Adoption In The United States

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Adoption has been around since ancient times. Families would adopt a heir to continue the family name if they did not have any sons. Today however, adoption means something different to us. It means bring someone into your family to love, care, and nurture. It means investing time to parent someone else’s child and love it as if it were your own. While the reason for adoption has changed the need for it has not. The only question which remains, is should we adopt internationally.
There are over 400,000 children in foster care, and more than 100,000 of them are available to be adopted in the United States. It is not hard to come to the conclusion that we need to care for our children here in the US. Along with the need to adopt domestically,

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