Adoption crisis

Every year more than one million parents seek to adopt a child, but by 1995 almost one million children will be in foster homes, detention centers or on the street. These children are suffering because we have inadequate and outdated adoption and foster care systems that fail to bring together parents and children. Although there is no shortage of children to adopt, the vast majority are special-needs children, scarred from years of unattachment and drifting from one foster home to another. News programs and adoption services attempt to place these children through heartstring-tugging…