Monday, November 14, 2011
November Is National Adoption Awareness Month
Hello All,
you've probably gotten a little tired of waiting for an update. It's been almost 10 months since our last post. Wow! I can hardly believe it. I feel that maybe I'm rested up enough to share a little about what's happening with the Goudelocks and I think this information that I ran across on another blog, is a good way to start.
Ever Considered Adopting? Read These Stats.
Statistics in adoption are staggering - the number of children needing families, the number of children who will die without a family, the number of children dying compared to the number who find families will shock you out of your pants. Literally.
If you have ever considered adopting - or even if you haven't, perhaps you should. Read this post from Forever Family and see if it makes you think twice about adoption. To give you some background, the family waited 135 days for their LOA. What that means is this: They were matched with a child. They sent away their LOI (Letter of Intent to adopt their child) and then waited 135 days for the Chinese government to send them a Letter of Approval stating that the family is allowed to adopt their child. 135 days is not the norm. At all. Take a look at these numbers to find out what happened to the world's orphaned children in the 135 days they waited for their LOA...
Some sad facts about Adoption and 135 days...
•a child is born every 8 seconds, which means 10800 children are born every day, which means 1,458,000 children were born in the 135 days while we were waiting for our LOA
•6,000,000 children die of starvation every year, which means 2,220,000 children have died from starvation alone while we waited for our LOA
•762,000 MORE children die in 135 days than those who are born
•there are still roughly 147,000,000 children waiting for adoption
•if one child could be adopted every hour, it would still take 6,125,000 days to adopt all the children who currently need families
•if one child could be adopted every minute, it would still take 102,100 days to adopt all the children who currently need families
•yet, it would only take 26,045 days for all the children needing a family to die of starvation
How can our hearts not be moved to try to change this?! Our joy is a stark contrast to the reality which so many people are facing in the world today. So when people ask, "Why are you so excited about a simple LOA?" ... this is why, because our son is not going to be one of the 147 MILLION orphans for any longer.
~ Courtesy of Forever Family - the Berzenji Family
you've probably gotten a little tired of waiting for an update. It's been almost 10 months since our last post. Wow! I can hardly believe it. I feel that maybe I'm rested up enough to share a little about what's happening with the Goudelocks and I think this information that I ran across on another blog, is a good way to start.
Ever Considered Adopting? Read These Stats.
Statistics in adoption are staggering - the number of children needing families, the number of children who will die without a family, the number of children dying compared to the number who find families will shock you out of your pants. Literally.
If you have ever considered adopting - or even if you haven't, perhaps you should. Read this post from Forever Family and see if it makes you think twice about adoption. To give you some background, the family waited 135 days for their LOA. What that means is this: They were matched with a child. They sent away their LOI (Letter of Intent to adopt their child) and then waited 135 days for the Chinese government to send them a Letter of Approval stating that the family is allowed to adopt their child. 135 days is not the norm. At all. Take a look at these numbers to find out what happened to the world's orphaned children in the 135 days they waited for their LOA...
Some sad facts about Adoption and 135 days...
•a child is born every 8 seconds, which means 10800 children are born every day, which means 1,458,000 children were born in the 135 days while we were waiting for our LOA
•6,000,000 children die of starvation every year, which means 2,220,000 children have died from starvation alone while we waited for our LOA
•762,000 MORE children die in 135 days than those who are born
•there are still roughly 147,000,000 children waiting for adoption
•if one child could be adopted every hour, it would still take 6,125,000 days to adopt all the children who currently need families
•if one child could be adopted every minute, it would still take 102,100 days to adopt all the children who currently need families
•yet, it would only take 26,045 days for all the children needing a family to die of starvation
How can our hearts not be moved to try to change this?! Our joy is a stark contrast to the reality which so many people are facing in the world today. So when people ask, "Why are you so excited about a simple LOA?" ... this is why, because our son is not going to be one of the 147 MILLION orphans for any longer.
~ Courtesy of Forever Family - the Berzenji Family
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