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CONSIDER ADOPTING A HARD-TO-PLACE CHILD
Posted by: Kirsh & Kirsh
November 06, 2007
Nationally, there are 80-100 families for every healthy, white infant available for adoption and nearly one to two million families hoping to adopt those children. By my estimation, there are 4 or 5 families for every bi-racial (black and white mixed) baby and less than one family for every African-American baby available for adoption. Likewise, there is a significant shortage of families to adopt children who are drug and alcohol exposed, and whose birth mothers' medical histories include bi-polarism or any other mental illnesses...
