25 Facts About Adoption To Melt Your Heart

About one in three children from the foster care system are adopted by parents of a different race than the child. In foster care, most adopted children are non-white, while a 73% majority of the adopting parents are white.

Research has shone that if every one out of three American churches adopted a child, every child looking for their forever family would no longer be in need in the U.S.

In America alone, about seven million people were adopted.

There are many reasons families may decide to adopt, these include issues with fertility, wanting to avoid contributing to the overpopulation of the planet, and wanting to give someone a second chance at life.

Additionally, they may want to avoid passing on a hereditary disease, and even concerns over complications in pregnancy and birth.

Embryo adoption is also an option, where the embryo is given to another couple or individual to be implanted in the recipient woman’s uterus.