November Adoption Awareness Month
Is A Kane Family Celebration
Senator Rob Kane (R-32) will join thousands
of individuals, government agencies and child advocacy
organizations across the country in celebrating National
Adoption Month in November, and National Adoption
day on November 21st.
“National Adoption Month is special
to my wife, Marcy, and I because we adopted both of
our children. Becoming parents to our son Aidan, who
is now five, and our daughter Deana, who is now three,
was the greatest achievement and experience of our
lives,” said Senator Kane.
National Adoption Month began in Massachusetts
as National Adoption Week in 1976, and has been celebrated
as National Adoption Month since 1990. The 10th annual
National Adoption Day will be celebrated on November
21st. On November 20, Probate Courts in several parts
of Connecticut will be working with the state Department
of Children and Families to finalize adoptions in
open court so that families can publically tell their
stories and celebrate their children becoming legally
permanent members of their families. Several other
events will be held across Connecticut this month.
Meanwhile, the main focus of National Adoption Month
in Connecticut across the country continues to be
foster care adoptions.
The focus of this year’s National
Adoption Month is “Answering the Call: You Don’t
Have to Be Perfect to Be a Perfect Parent”.
The goal is to spread awareness and to recruit and
retain foster and adoptive parents for our nation’s
waiting children. Nationally, there are approximately
496,000 children currently in foster care, 130,000
of whom are waiting for permanent families. Of the
children in need of adoption nationwide, 31 percent
are African-American and 43 percent are older than
eight.
“Marcy and I both know firsthand
that your heart does not know the difference between
becoming a parent through birth or adoption. We adopted
our children, both of whom are from South Korea, when
they were infants. However, we have spent time with
a lot of other adoptive families, and their experience
and ours tells us that love for one’s child
does not depend on how old he or she is when joining
your family, on who the birth parents are, or on where
the child is from originally. If you think that adoption
may be right for you, National Adoption Month is a
wonderful time to look into it,” said Senator
Kane.
More information about National Adoption
Month and National Adoption Day is available at www.childwelfare.gov,
www.nationaladoptionday.org,
and at www.AdoptUsKids.org.
More information about adoption and
foster care in Connecticut is available from the state
Department of Children and Families at
www.ct.gov/dcf, by calling 1-888-KID-HERO,
or by sending an e-mail to kidHero@cafap.com.
