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South Dakota families honored during National Adoption Month
Argus Leader
November is National Adoption Month.
Read MoreOpinion: Diverse foster and adoptive parents needed
Atlanta Journal Constitution
This is the reality of foster care today: There are more children in need of foster homes than there...
Read MoreChristians worldwide reflect God's love for vulnerable children on Orphan Sunday
Christians worldwide are uniting today for Orphan Sunday, where congregations will not only learn about the plight of orphaned children, but also discover ways in which they can help in their own communities and globally.
Read MoreSafe Families for Children Program Reaches Milestone
Safe Families offers a safe place for the kids to stay while parents get back on their feet.
Read More'We love you the way you are' | West Michigan family shares unlikely adoption story
Abbey Morrow had been in the foster care system since she was a toddler and moved several dozen times before she met the empty nesters who became her family.
Read MoreNational adoption agency urges families to adopt older foster kids
KPAX
A Georgia couple took in siblings Mark and Lexy, who are teens. However, an adoption story like this one is not very common. Most people want to adopt babies, and at the ages of 15 and 17, Mark and Lexy almost aged out of the foster care system.
Read MoreOpinion: Michigan needs far more foster parents
The Detroit News
"Foster parents could be the answer to restoring our hurting communities. "
Read MoreTeen adoption from foster care: a story from a true “instant family”
Mission Network News
November is National Adoption Month in the United States. It's no secret that venturing into the world of adoption introduces a lot of unknowns. But...
Read More"Safe Families" program helps give kids a home when parents are in need
WVLT
When families are in crisis sometimes there's no place for kids to go.
Read MoreNew to Haiti: Foster care for the nation's parentless kids
Associated Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Like roughly a quarter of Haiti's children, 11-year-old Franchina has spent much of her short life without parents. Her mother dead, her father in prison, Franchina was placed in a state-run orphanage as a toddler, remaining illiterate year after year and seemingly destined for a hard life in the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation. But this year, Franchina's fortunes took a hopeful turn. She has benefited from the newfound resolution of Haiti's government to improve the deplorable status of the country's children, and more specifically from a partnership between the state child welfare agency and several international child-service organizations.
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