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Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Voice of the Orphan Stats

The thing that I find amazing also is that only 4% of households have adopted children . OUr adoption director's email signature says the following: "Adoption won't change the world but it will change the world for that child"

These are from the Voice of the orphan website and actually are a few years old... www.voiceoftheorphan.com

Did you know...

  • 143 million children worldwide have lost one or both parents. i
  • At least 16.2 million children worldwide have lost both parents. ii
  • 16 million children were newly orphaned in 2003. iii
  • Armed conflicts orphaned or separated 1 million children from their families in the 1990s. iv
  • Two to five percent of all refugees worldwide are children living without their parents. v
  • The proportion of children who are orphans generally increases with age. vi
    • 12% (17.5 million) are 0-5 years.
    • 33% (47 million) are 6-11 years.
    • 55% (79 million) are 12-17 years old. vii
Where the orphans are living
  • 87.6 million orphans live in Asia. viii
  • 43.4 million orphans live in Sub-Saharan Africa. ix
  • 12.4 million orphans live in Latin America and the Caribbean. x
  • Almost 1.5 million children live in public care in Central and Eastern Europe. xi
  • More than 800,000 children pass through America’s foster care system each year.

Adoption and waiting children in the U.S.

  • Between 118,000 and 127,000 children have been adopted every year since 1987. xviii
  • More than 50 percent of all adoptions are handled by public agencies or come from countries outside the U.S. xix
  • More than one-third of Americans have seriously considered adopting, but no more than 2% have actually adopted. xxi
  • Only 4 percent of families with children (1.7 million households) contain adopted children. xvii
  • 118,000 children were waiting to be adopted in September 2004.
  • Approximately 50,000 children are adopted from foster care per year.
  • On average, children waiting for adoption have been in foster care for 43.8 months, almost four years.
these children are the hope and future for this world. I have no clue what things are going to look like as millions of children grown up without having adult mentors, parents....I think showing them the least bit of love can go a long way.

D


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