Adoption Facts

We just love the quote our sister made about National Adoption month, "November is National Adoption month...celebrating families touched by adoption, honoring birth mothers for giving the gift of life, and remembering children still in need of a loving family. Adoption is a life long journey." We couldn't have said it better, thank you sister!

We all know adoption is an incredible journey but do you know the facts about adoption:

~ It has been estimated that Americans adopted over 100,000 children domestically and about 11,000 children from overseas

~ 6 in 10 Americans have had personal experience with adoption

~ 37.5% of adoptions are done through private agencies

~ Only 2% of unmarried women choose to place their child for adoption (in US)

~ Only 1% of teen pregnancies result in adoption placements (in US)

~ There has been a significant rise in Ethiopian adoptions. In 2000 there were 95 children adopted from Ethiopia compared to 2009 where 2,277 children were adopted from Ethiopia.

~ In Ethiopia, 53% of the orphans are female, 34% under 1 year of age, 39% 1 to 4 years of age (in 2008).

~ There are 143 million orphans in the world. 

And we added in our own fact: Adoption was not our 2nd option! It is a loving way to build a family.