The Most Significant Challenge Facing Adoption In America......

December 16th Jedd Medefind posted the following excerpt on the Christian Alliance For Orphans blog.  I personally cannot say or write enough about this issue to give it justice...this is the crisis that we are heading into at high speed as our communities are swelling with the ranks of adopted children from hard places.  If the families I connect with here are any example, there is a tidal wave that is about to hit our social service/education/medical communities and we are not even in the boats yet as far as preparation.  Here is what he wrote...

"Last month, the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute issued “Keeping the Promise,” a highly significant report exploring the state of adoption and adoptive families across America. Although the report was not written from a Christian perspective, in my view it would be hard to overstate the importance of its conclusion for the growing Christian adoption and orphan care movement.


The report affirms a number of highly positive factors. It notes that over the past fifteen years alone, Americans have provided homes for over a quarter million children who’d been relegated to institutions abroad. That same period has also seen nearly three-quarters of a million adoptions from foster care. The report describes, “[W]e have made considerable progress in finding enduring families for girls and boys who have suffered from abuse, neglect, multiple placements, institutionalization and other pre-adoption experiences…”

However, drawing from serious examination of the post-adoption supports available to families that have adopted children from difficult places, the report urges, “[O]ur priority must be not only to achieve permanency, but also to assure that adoptive parents receive the supports they need to raise their children to healthy adulthood.”...........to read the rest click here.  To read the study click here.

(Jedd's that tall guy surrounded by the crew)