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Raise Awareness for National Adoption Month

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November 10, 2011

motherchild adoption Raise Awareness for National Adoption MonthNovember is National Adoption Awareness month; this November marks the 21st Annual Adoption Conference in Brooklyn, NY. It is a time dedicated to raising awareness and educating others on adoption.

Adoption isn’t limited to newborns, there are children waiting to be adopted who are in the system until the age of 21. Here are some shocking numbers on children who grow up without parents:

  • More than 250,000 children in the US enter the foster care system every year.
  • More than 20,000 children age out of foster care without being adopted.
  • Almost 500,000 children are in the US still waiting to get a home.

It is important to raise awareness and improve sentiments behind adopting older children. These children need permanent, stable and loving environments but instead are passed around between foster homes until they age out.

Toby Dawson: A Great Story to Raise Awareness about Adoption

Toby Dawson, born Kim Bong-seok in Pusan South Korea is an inspiring adoption success story that has openly shared his journey to learning about his past and finding his birth parents.

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Toby Dawson with his adoptive mother

Regardless of how much an adopted child loves and cherishes his adoptive parents, many are left with a deep need to search for their biological parents.

Toby Dawson, though of Korean ethnicity was adopted by an American couple from Colorado at the age of 3. Dawson would eventually grow to be a competitive Olympic athlete.

Dawson was found abandoned at a police station before he was adopted so his past left many questions unanswered. In 2007, after reaching out to the public about any information anyone may have about his background, a DNA test confirmed that Dawson’s birth father was a bus driver from Busan, South Korea.

DNA testing often helps by confirming genealogy and birth ancestry.

Children and Foster Care

There are a variety of organizations that work to promote and educate adoption:

Celebrities Make Adoption “Trendy”
At the end of the day, any promotion of welcoming orphaned or parentless children into a loving home is positive. But many celebrities adopting international newborns causes the neglect of older children.
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Kirsten Davis

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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt

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Katherine Heigl

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Sandra Bullock and Baby Louis

Spend this month thinking about what you can do to learn more and help children in foster care!

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Celebrity Secrets – Did you know they were adopted?

Filed Under: DNA Testing by dnatesting101 — 1 Comment
May 9, 2011

Everyone has their skeletons in the closet and although being adopted may not be a dark part of one’s past, it is usually a touchy subject. Here is a list of famous celebrities who you may or may not have known were actually raised by someone other than their biological parents.

Nicole Richie

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A true rags to riches story, Nicole Richie was adopted by Lionel because Nicole’s parents did not have the means to raise her in the best possible environment. Born to a family with nothing, Richie’s adoption became official and she would eventually have Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones as godfathers.

 

 

Jack Nicholson

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In what may be one of the most scandalous of stories, Jack Nicholson did not find out he was actually adopted until he was 37. A Time researcher uncovered the truth about Nicholson’s past. It was found that his father had abandoned his young pregnant mother early on. He was raised by his grandparents and believed through out his adolescence that his mother was his sister.

 

 

Willie Nelson

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Willie Nelson’s parents divorced during the Great Depression and it was his grandparents who took him and his sister in. Both children grew up refering to their grandparents as “Daddy” and “Mama.”

 

 

Marilyn Monroe

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Not all adoption stories can be fairy tales, for Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jean Baker)- her youth was haunted by her unstable mother and tumultuous memories of being in and out of the foster care system. It is often wondered if her rocky history with drugs and depression are tied to the sexual abuse she experienced while in foster homes.

 

 

 

Eric Clapton

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Eric Clapton’s mother gave birth to him at age 16 and his father who was a soldier was unknown to him for most of his life. Clapton was raised by his grandparents but in 1998 searched for his biological father and was finally able to reunite and meet his half-siblings.

 

 

 

Steve Jobs

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Because his parents were unmarried and still studying, he was put up for adoption. Steve Jobs would eventually become co-founder and CEO of the most valued brand of today, Apple. His birth parents would eventually marry and give birth to his biological sister, Mona Simpson.

 

 

Over 100,000 adoptions take place a year and there are even more orphans who go unadopted until the age of 18 when they are finally of the age to leave the system. Many of these stories, whether they are happy or not, leave a feeling that is known as geanological bewilderment. This term  describes the feeling of something “missing” that children who are either fostered or adopted often experience.

There are TV shows now dedicated to reuniting lost families. DNA testing is the key to connecting people to their past. Did you know about all of these celebrity secrets?

To learn more about what DNA testing can do for you, visit GTL DNA.

 

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