(09-21-2020, 10:40 AM)Lucky2Last Wrote: There is a HUGE waiting list for people wanting to adopt. The problem is the bureaucratic red tape that impedes the process.

There is a huge waiting list for people wanting to adopt healthy, white babies. They are the minority in foster care. My cousin fosters kids in Ohio and as long as she has been doing it, all the kids she has taken in have either been of color or physically or mentally handicapped. They are practically begging her to take in more kids, but she has 3 little boys of her own between the ages of 7 and less than 1 year old. Her oldest is a little Hispanic boy that she fostered from the age of 3 weeks old. He was so abused in the first week of his life, that his biological father broke the orbital bone in his eye. Thank God, he is in a good place now. He's a very intelligent and happy kid who read all the Harry Potter books on his own before the age of 5. My cousin has done wonders with that child. Her other 2 are biologically hers and all three boys get along wonderfully.

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