“It is easier to build a child than to fix an adult”

The Society for Orphaned Children in Canada

To contact us:

orphan-book@pobox.com

Scientific Research Reports

“Three prominent Canadian researchers have called  for  greater efforts  to investigating the declining state of adoption in Canada. Speaking at the 2003 Annual General Meeting of the Adoption Council of Canada held in Toronto of November 22, 2003, Gail Aitkin, Nancy Cohen and Jean Becker called for “Better training for social workers to make the adoption system work faster.”

“Research on particular attachment needs of adopted children” “A national study on the state of Aboriginal adoption.”

None of these have been implemented:

Most children registered with our program are between the ages of four and ten, but children as young as newborns and as old as fifteen have been listed.  The children registered in Canada’s Waiting Children tend to be more challenging than most Canadian children in need of permanent family.  This is because children are only referred to us when no resources can be found in their home region.

One of the biggest myths about adoption in Canada is that there are no Canadian children available for adoption.

There are more than 85,000 children in the Canadian welfare organizations across Canada; 22,000 are children whose parental rights have been terminated by the courts what this usually means is that these children have no permanent homes and will live in foster care until they are of legal age.

Without federal oversight, most provinces have devoted their budgets to foster care rather than adoption.  The diversity of policies between aboriginal peoples and provinces makes cooperation between them especially challenging.

One of the biggest myths about adoption in Canada is that there are no Canadian children available for adoption.

 

22,000 Canadian foster children are legally available for adoption.

Heading

A Canadian Study