WHAT: National Adoption Day Celebration
WHEN: Saturday, November 20, 2010
10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon
WHERE: El Paso County Courthouse
Commissioner’s Courtroom, 3rd Floor (1st floor entrance)
CONTACT: 65th Judicial District Court
Honorable Yahara Lisa Gutierrez at (915)546-2102
Today, more than 115,000 children in the U.S. foster care system are available for adoption. That figure includes 105 children in El Paso County who are growing up without permanent families of their own. These children came into the foster care system because they were victims of child abuse, neglect or abandonment. After their parent’s legal rights were terminated, they became free for adoption.
While more children enter the foster care system each year, fewer children leave the system through adoption. The typical child who has been freed for adoption is at least eight years old, moves three or more times to different foster homes, may have been separated from siblings, and will wait five years or more to be adopted. Tragically, tens of thousands will never be adopted and they will leave the system at age 18 without families.
On Saturday, November 20, 2010, the 65th Judicial District will join other courts across the nation in celebrating the families that have opened their homes to give 14 children a “forever” family. Please join us at 10 a.m.
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