If you haven’t been reading my blog for a long time, you may not know that I am staunchly pro-life. Along with that, it only makes sense that I am also very FOR adoption. I believe all children have a right to be born AND loved!
As such, I wanted to let you know about a very important organization called AdoptUsKids. The following information was provided by ResourcefulMommyMedia:
The mission of AdoptUsKids is to recruit and connect foster and adoptive families with waiting children throughout the United States. Funded by the Children’s Bureau of the Administration for Children and Families, the national photolisting website contains photos and information about children in foster care. A national adoption public service advertising recruitment campaign was launched in July 2004 in a partnership of the Children’s Bureau, the Ad Council, and AdoptUsKids, with the goal of raising awareness of the significant number of children in this country waiting to be adopted. New PSAs have been developed as an extension of this highly successful campaign. The latest series of ads in this award-winning campaign target the African American community, in keeping with the effort to diligently recruit from communities representative of the children in care. Thirty-one percent of the children in foster care waiting to be adopted are African American; African American children are overrepresented in the foster care population relative to their percentage in the U.S. general population. Because of this, African American children often wait longer to be adopted.
To learn more about adoption from foster care and how to help spread the word about children in care waiting for a forever family, please visit: http://www.adoptuskids.org/adoption-and-foster-care-advocacy/. You can also view children in your area by visiting: http://www.adoptuskids.org/Child/ChildSearch.aspx.
You can also follow them on Twitter – @PerfectParent or @AdoptUsKids or on their Facebook Fan page.