Barrington is the coordinator for Ross County Childrens Services, and according to an article in the Nov. 25 edition of the Chillicothe Gazette, she is working hard to match children in foster care with adoptive parents, ideally in time for the holidays:
One of the challenges for those working in fields dealing with adoption, she said, is finding placement for older children. Typically, infants and younger children are adopted more quickly than older ones.
"Some people have this idea of older children, that they are troubled youth, and that's not true," she said.
Another misconception is that a person has to be wealthy in order to adopt, she said.
Barrington said many of the older children go off to college and don't even have a home to return to on breaks or over the holidays. Those children, even though they are on the verge of full adulthood, need that family structure as well, she said.
"Every child is adoptable," Barrington said.
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