{"id":3532,"date":"2016-01-29T19:31:23","date_gmt":"2016-01-30T00:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/?p=3532"},"modified":"2021-06-18T15:52:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T19:52:44","slug":"children-in-america-also-need-a-home-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/children-in-america-also-need-a-home-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Children In America Also Need A Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I believe the best act of kindness is adopting a child. It\u2019s a beautiful thing to take in someone who has no family or a stable home. Unfortunately, everyone seems to be adopting children outside of our country. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (C.C.A.I.),<\/span> <b>\u201c<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">397,122 children are living without permanent families\u201d in the United States<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have so many of our own kids who don\u2019t have any real families. So I think it\u2019s unreasonable to adopt internationally when our country already has a big problem with orphans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Consequently, those willing to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/new-law-rights-an-absurd-wrong\/\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">adopt<\/span><\/a> should only be allowed to adopt within the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">America has many issues, thus before we try helping other countries, we should try to fix our own. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute continues with: \u201cChildren raised in orphanages have an IQ 20 points lower.\u201d We are going to have children in our country with low IQs who will then have to run America in the future. No thank you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Of course other countries definitely need help, but we need to help our own before we branch out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Celebrities show off like they are heroes when they adopt a child from a third world country, but they seem to forget that there\u2019s plenty of children in need here. Feeding America claims that \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twenty percent or more of the child population in 38 states and D.C. lived in food-insecure households in 2013.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/Debate.org\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Debate.org<\/span><\/a> states, \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The population of the United States is already at ridiculous proportions. The amount of children given up, abused and taken, neglected, or fostered after a tragic accident is greater than most of us could wrap our heads around. There are more than enough children of all ages that are just waiting to be taken home to a place where they can develop and grow.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe the best act of kindness is adopting a child. It\u2019s a beautiful thing to take in someone who has no family or a stable home. Unfortunately, everyone seems to be adopting children outside of our country. 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