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
- 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.
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