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Adoption in America

"Adoption is not about finding children for families, it's about finding families for children" – Joyce Maguire Pavao

Adoption is more than giving a child a home. Adoption is about creating a family. People adopt children for all sorts of reasons: suffering infertility, being a single parent and wanting children, and having sympathy towards orphaned children just to name a few. Adoption is a huge part of American society, and has always been important to America's culture.
Little do people know that people we hear about everyday are adopted. There are hundreds of famous people that have been adopted when young: Faith Hill, Jesse Jackson, Nancy Regan, President Gerald Ford, Sarah McLachlan, Tim McGraw, and Scott Hamilton, whom are all still alive. John Lennon, Malcolm X, Nat King Cole, Eleanor Roosevelt, Edgar Allan Poe, and Dave Thomas have all been adopted as well, however they are all deceased (Adoption Celebrities).
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