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News Release
Senator Barrios Joins Lt. Gov Healey, Barry and Eliot from Jordan's Furniture to Celebrate and Promote National Adoption Day
Boston, MA – Senator Jarrett T. Barrios last week kicked off the second annual National Adoption Day in Massachusetts by encouraging people throughout the state to consider adoption. In Boston, where Barrios joined Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey and Department of Social Services Commissioner Harry Spence in celebrating the joys of adoption, 61 children were legally adopted. “Adoption gives children a loving home and caring parents,” said Senator Barrios. “With thousands of children waiting to be adopted I encourage couples to seriously consider adoption as an option for their family.” National Adoption Day was first organized in 2000 by the Alliance for Children's Rights to bring about awareness of the 129,000 children in foster care waiting to find permanent families. This year, National Adoption Day had the goal of doing even better than the previous year’s goal, by doing its best in legalizing the adoptions of more than 3,100 children. In Massachusetts, finalizations of 177 adoptions of children from foster care occurred in the cities of Boston, Brockton, Northampton, Salem, and Springfield. In Boston, Barrios, an adoptive father himself, was also joined by Barry and Eliot Tatelman of Jordan’s Furniture who have been long-time advocates for adoption. There are approximately 565,000 foster care children in the United States, and 131,000 of them are available for adoption. If only one in 500 Americans adopted from the foster care system, all of the waiting children would have homes. Since 1987, the number of children in foster care has nearly doubled, and the average time a child remains in foster care has lengthened to nearly three years. National Adoption Day in Massachusetts was organized by fifteen organizations, including the Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange and Department of Social Services. For more information about adoption please contact the following organizations: The Home for Little Wanderers: Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange: Department of Social Services ### |
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