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November is National Adoption Month, a time to raise awareness about the adoption of children and youth from foster care. In the U.S. there are over 400,000 children in foster care, of which 107,000 are eligible for adoption and waiting to be placed with a "forever family." Tragically, each year 25,000 youth age-out of foster care having never been adopted.

But we need to do more than be aware of this issue, we need to act.

As the plaintiff in the adoption lawsuit that rendered Florida’s ban on adoption by lesbians and gay men unenforceable, I know first-hand the harm that such policies can cause.  I have been a foster parent to 25 children over the last nine years and have seen the harm that comes to the many kids who don't get adopted.  And with our two sons, I have seen the incredible difference that an adoption can make in the lives of foster children.

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