The Rockdale News Rockdale News Digital Edition November 12, 2014 | Page 11

In Depth

Who Adopts?
Characteristics of Women and
Men Who Have Adopted Children
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Thinking of adopting
in Georgia?
Here’s where to start:

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Children available for
adoption in Georgia

Love, joy and wonder
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Adoption statistics

Columnist Kari Apted describes
her family’s experience of
adopting their daughter Violet
from Uganda this year.
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In the U.S. 397,122 children are living without permanent families in the
foster care system. 101,666 of these
children are eligible for adoption, but
nearly 32% of these children will wait
over three years in foster care before
being adopted.
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According to the U.S. State Department, U.S. families adopted more
than 7,000 children in 2012. Last year,
Americans adopted the highest number of children from China followed
by Ethiopia, Ukraine, Haiti, and the
Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Around the world, there are an estimated 153 million orphans who have
lost one parent. There are 17,900,000
orphans who have lost both parents
and are living in orphanages or on the
streets and lack the care and attention
required for healthy development.
These children are at risk for disease,
malnutrition, and death.
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In 2006, the Chinese government
proposed a new set of rules requiring that adoptive parents must meet
certain educational and financial
requirements, be married, be under 50,
not be clinically obese, not have taken
antidepressant or anti-anxiety medication in the previous two years and not
have any facial deformities.
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