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Originally posted by KillarneyRose
I've never figured out if A) there are more children out there waiting to be adopted than there are prospective parents to adopt them or if B) there are not enough children in need of adoption to meet the demand. I've heard both ways.
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Its both. There aren't enough children out there for adoption who fit the critieria of most prospective parents. A lot of them are holding out for a perfectly healthy newborn boy or girl of the same ethinic background. There are many wonderful people who look past a disablility, different race, or age and adopt children into loving homes, but not nearly enough of those people. So children sit in the system getting older, and not getting adopted, because they didn't mesh into someones mental picture of the perfect family.