In the past four years adoption of children from Ethiopia have increased by more than 50%. Six years ago, there were only 284 ethiopian children, out of the 22,990 international children who were adopted by American families. For the 2010 fiscal year, there will be 2,500 adoptions from Ethiopia. This is a remarkable increase and Ethiopia is on the verge of overtaking China as the top source country for adoption. This seems to be a great future for the orphaned children of Ethiopia and most likely Africa as a whole. Ethiopia is now helping to set examples on how beneficial it is to allow adoptions of children, instead of keeping them in institutions just to keep the child in their native country.
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this is awesome. I wonder what country in Africa has the highest amount of adoptions/ orphans?
ReplyDeleteThis is really interesting. I wonder what's behind the changes?
ReplyDeleteJamie, are you asking which country in Africa has the greatest number of orphans in general or the largest number that get adopted internationally?
Keyona, do you think you'll find this interesting enough and meaty enough for your research project? It could be really good if there's enough info out there.