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Lucas County Children Services Recognizes National Adoption
Month
Agency Celebrates the “Many Faces of Adoption”
Special to The Truth
November is
National Adoption Month, and Lucas County Children Services
(LCCS) is getting involved by celebrating the “Many Faces of
Adoption.” On November 2 at 9:30 a.m., a special program for
agency staff featured families that have adopted children
through LCCS.
One family
adopted a group of five siblings; another adopted an older
child; another adopted a child with special needs; and yet
another was a same-sex couple who adopted a child.
While all of
these families seem very different on the surface, they all
share the keys to becoming successful adoptive parents: the
willingness to love a child, the ability to nurture a child,
the ability to make a lifelong commitment to a child, and
the ability to welcome a
child into their family whose biological parents were unable
to safely parent him/her.
“There is no one type of person who is the ‘perfect’
adoptive parent. They are as different as the children they
adopt: younger or older, middle class or working class,
single or married, of every
ethnicity or
race imaginable. We appreciate them all, especially during
National Adoption Month, when we’re once again reminded that
40 children in Lucas County, and more than 102,000 children
nationwide, are in foster care awaiting new, ‘forever’
families,” says Robin
Reese, LCCS interim executive director.
Information
about adopting a child from LCCS foster care is available
at the LCCS website, www.lucaskids.net, or by calling
419-213-3336 419-213-3336.
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