National Adoption Day is a significant moment during National Adoption Month to highlight the pressing need for adoptive families, especially for older children, sibling groups, and those with specialized needs. Across the United States, over 110,000 children in foster care are up for adoption and waiting for adoptive families. The Barker Adoption foundation is an Adoption Agency licensed in DC, MD and VA.
The Barker Adoption Foundation is an Adoption Agency licensed in DC, MD, and VA. At Barker, National Adoption Month is a time for us to renew our commitment to finding loving families for waiting children and youth through our Project Wait No Longer- older child foster care adoption program and our advocacy in the community on their behalf. The most critical voice in the foster care journey is that of the child who is/was in care. This month hear from their voices through our series - The Voices of Barker Champions: National Foster Month Q&As.
MEET THE RHODES SISTERS.
When one thinks of adoption, one might often think of permanency, bringing a child into your home, or creating a forever family for a child in need. While these are all very consistent with the theme of adoption, and certainly are the most common aspects, I took a moment this week to think of some simpler activities that my friends and I embarked on when I was a teenager. I grew up on a college campus in Trinidad where my father was a professor, so I was always surrounded by college students much older than I was. I became very fond of their social service and activist projects and was eager to be a part of them as soon as I was old enough. I recall engaging with a community of single mothers who came from a fairly impoverished village not too far from the campus. A group of college students decided that they would each “adopt” one baby each, from the mothers in the village, whic
