NY: Syracuse family celebrates National Adoption Awareness Day (Includes video)
Spectrum News 1 – November 17, 2023
National Adoption Day is observed the Saturday before Thanksgiving every year. It’s a day to celebrate and raise awareness for the nearly 114,000 children waiting to be adopted in the United States, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. For Julie Rosati and her husband, Steve, adopting a child isn’t new. “You feel really overwhelmed because you know, in our case, Steve and I, we couldn’t have children of our own and so we’re just so blessed,” she said. Unfortunately, thousands of children never get that experience. According to the National Foster Youth Institute, 23,000 children age out of the foster care system every year.