National Adoption Week is held annually the week of Thanksgiving.
Adopted children enjoy more socioeconomic advantages than children who remain with their unmarried birth mothers. Adoptive parents tend to be better-educated and older with higher incomes.
Only 1-2% of adopted adults "search" for their biological parents.
State and Federal adoption subsidy programs are available to assist parents with the costs of caring for a "special needs" child.
There are waiting lists of couples that would like to adopt infants with Downs Syndrome or spina bifida.
There are a large number of couples that would like to adopt terminally ill babies, including babies with AIDS.
Adolescents who were adopted as infants fare better in school, have more friends, enjoy higher self-esteem, and put more value on caring for others than teenagers who were not adopted.
