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Sunday, August 24, 2008

Couples Urged to Adopt Older Children

Officials in Norfolk County (United Kingdom) are urging potential adoptive couples to consider older children. Few babies are available, and many older kids are waiting for a home. Now, couples who have adopted older kids are joining in the plea.
"They said: 'Adoption is not about meeting the needs of childless couples like us, however harsh that sounds. It is about giving children who have had sad starts to their lives a second chance for love, stability and happiness.'"
Many people prefer adopting babies because they don't think babies will have any emotional issues. But officials and adoptive parents agreed that babies are no less likely to have emotional baggage than older kids - it may just take longer for the problems to surface. Source: EDP24

Labels: older_children, adoptive_families, advice

Posted By: Aspen Education Group

Comments:

Anonymous on 8/25/2008
We have an unusual situation. We are trying to adopt 2 older children that are wards of the State of Colorado. They are in our home, parental rights were terminated in April 2007, but DHS will not prioritize this case to finalize adoption. No one checks on the kids, the kids don't have a GAL, I am appalled at the fact that no one in Colorado seems to care where the kids are both physically and in the system. I am beginning to feel that Colorado has a serious systemic problem in its DHS... Someone needs to review the Jefferson County DHS and the Jefferson County Judicial system to determine how many children they have misplaced...