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November is National Adoption Month

     November is National Adoption Month. The National Council For Adoption founded in 1980, is a foundation whose goal is to ensure the well-being of children, their birthparents, and the adoptive families by promoting adoption as a positive option.

     The council's agenda for promoting the welfare of children consists of several things:
          *Training pregnancy counselors and healthcare workers in infant adoption awareness, so women and pregnant teens can consider adoption freely.
          *Recruit and prepare parents to promote adoption and foster care, so children in need can find loving homes.
          *Protect birthmothers and make adoptions secure through putative father registries so fathers that are uninvolved cannot block the birthmother's adoption for their child.
          *Strengthen the adoption tax credit and advance pro-adoption fiscal policies so more families can afford to adopt.
          *Support Save Havens so birthmothers can place their children safely and legally with trained, authorized caregivers; rather than abandoning them.
          *Reduce obstacles involved with transracial adoptions, so children are not denied families on account of race.
          *Work with U.S. and foreign governments on intercoutry adoptions, so foreign orphans can find loving homes.
          *Protect the principles of mutual consent and privacy in adoptions so those involved in an adoption will not have their privacy breached without their consent.
          *Serve as an informational outlet on adoption statistics, policies, and practices, so adoption professionals, policy makers, and the public are informed on all the aspects of adoption.
          *Provide training and education to adoption agency members so they can provide the best advice and services.
          *Promote adoption in the media so Americans can see what a wonderful option it is.

     The National Council for Adoption has several principles it likes to follow:
          *Adoption should serve the best interests of the children
          *Making an adoption plan for a child is a loving act
          *Growing up adopted is healthy and normal
          *Adoptive parents are the real parents
          *There is no right to adopt, only the right of children to be adopted
          *Children's interests, not ideologies, should come first
          *Consistent with the child's best interests, preference in adoption placement should be given to families that have a married, mother-and-father.
          *Single-parent adoption is in the best interests of some children
          *Mutual consent should decide issues of privacy and openness.

     In a survey conducted in 2000 out of 83,714,107 children living in homes 2,058,915 (or 2.5%) were adopted. Most were between the ages of 6 and 11.

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