Foundation Statistics

Statistical Information

(Last updated September 9, 2009)

A Child Waits Foundation has provided financial assistance to 711 families to help bring 928 children home. The following is some statistical information for the children who are now home.

The maps below represent the number of children who were adopted from each country.

	Children Adopted from Europe		Children Adopted from Asia
	Children Adopted from Central America		Children Adopted from the Caribbean
Children Adopted from Africa			Children Adopted from South America
Additonally there have been 6 children adopted from Samoa, 4 from Hong Kong and 1 from Albania.

The following chart represents the age of the children at the time of the adoption.

As the chart below indicates, a slight majority of children adopted were male (51%).

The map of the United States presented below indicates where the children now live. Each number represents the total number of children in each state. To date we have helped children who now live in 47 of our 50 states.

For 22 children this information is not known and for 9 children, their parent(s) are in the military and they are currently out of the country.

Adoption Links and Resources

Gift of Adoption Fund (Formerly known as JSW): www.giftofadoption.org

National Adoption Foundation: www.nafadopt.org

Precious.org: www.precious.org

INS: www.uscis.gov

General Adoption Information: www.comeunity.com

The following web sites are places where potential adoptive families can check on the Adoption Agency they are considering using. We can not recommend or endorse any one agency over another so it is important for potential adoptive families to check out any agency they are considering. Please keep in mind that if applying for a loan from A Child Waits Foundation, loan applicants must be working with an adoption agency that is an approved agency by A Child Waits Foundation and licensed by the state of operation.

www.adoptionsolutions.com - This is an alphabetical listing by state of licensed adoption agencies.

www.adopting.com - This is another listing of adoption agencies.

www.adoptachild.org - Families have left comments about the agencies that they used for their adoption.

www.eeadopt.org - Listing of more than 900 families with email addresses who have agreed to give a reference (good or bad) for the agency they used.