How many more families would adopt if it didn't take so long or cost so much?
Did you know that the average international adoption takes 3 years and $28,000?
There is a grass roots movement to raise awareness that international adoption is decreasing at an alarming rate, while the number of orphans is increasing. We encourage the President to take steps to make adoption a reality for many more people who would gladly open their homes and hearts to these children. This movement hopes to decrease costs, decrease barriers, increase efficiency and in turn, link more children with their forever families. Please join me in telling the President how important it is that all children have the opportunity to grow up valued and loved.
Conservative
estimates say more than 10 million children around the world live
outside a family setting, in institutions or on the street. In reality,
that number may be much higher.
Adoptions into the U.S. have
fallen by more than 60 percent since 2004, due in large part to a broken
system filled with delays, bureaucracy, discrimination and staggering
costs. In the meantime, children are suffering.
Please watch the Stuck Documentary touring cities now http://vimeo.com/59302895 and finish the tour with a march on Washington May 17th. Click the link below to sign this important petition!
To:
The President of the United States
The U.S. Senate
The U.S. House of Representatives
Leaders of all world governments
Directors of international child welfare organizations
We believe every child has the right to a permanent loving family.
We find it intolerable that millions of children all over the world live without family care.
We embrace international adoption as a worthy and effective way to honor every child's right to a family.
We demand change NOW and call upon:
The President of the United States, Members of Congress and the Secretary of State:
- To establish the United States as an effective, proactive
champion for every child's right to a permanent loving family, and
-To remove barriers to international adoption.
Leaders of all world governments and directors of international child welfare organizations:
-To prioritize the need to find permanent loving families for
orphaned, abandoned and relinquished children as a basic human right,
and
-To support international adoption as an appropriate and viable solution for children living outside of family care.
Sincerely,
