National Adoption Month
Bloggin' Mamas is sponsoring this giveaway in support of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, AdoptUSKids, and the Ad Council. November is National Adoption Month and they are encouraging prospective parents to adopt older youth from foster care.
We are sharing this post as part of a Bloggin’ Mamas Social Good Campaign, and were not compensated for doing so.
The theme for National Adoption Month is, “We Never Outgrow the Need for Family.” That's because older children and youth still have many big milestones in their life they need a family for.
There are 415,000 children in the U.S. foster care system and 108,000 are waiting to be adopted. AdoptUSKids’ maintains a national photo listing service for children waiting to be adopted. Since the project launched in 2002, more than 25,000 children who were once photo listed on adoptuskids.org have been adopted and nearly 38,000 families have registered to adopt through the website. Nevertheless, older youth are disproportionately represented – approximately 41 percent of children and youth photo listed on adoptuskids.org are between 15 and 18 years old, but only 17 percent of those adopted have been in this age group.
Older youth and teens have lower adoption rates than younger children, and they often wait longer to be adopted. But no matter their age, all kids need a supportive, loving home and the teenage years are a critical period for growth.
Visit adoptuskids.org for the latest information about the foster care system and the adoption process. You can also visit the campaign’s communities on Facebook and Twitter.
And Now for the Giveaway!
One Winner will Win a $100 Amazon Gift Card!
Giveaway begins November 21st, 2015 at 6pm EST and ends November 30th, 2015 at 11:59 pm EST.
Open to US residents age 18 and older.
Winner will be selected by Random.org and be notified by email.
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Disclosure: Bloggin’ Mamas is hosting this giveaway and coordinating prize fulfillment. Element Associates, The Ad Council and the AdoptUSKids are in no way responsible for the giveaway, and only provided the above content to be distributed in the form of a PSA.
I think it is great that the services they offer are free. No, I do not have an experience with adoption other than one of my close friends was adopted. She met her birth family as a young adult.
I haven’t had direct experience so far, I have known several families that adopted. I hope in the future to be able to adopt, from the things I have heard it’s very expensive. At this stage in my life I’m not mature enough to be a parent.