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Amber is getting a makeover at the mall. Not that she needs one. She is picture pretty already, with blond hair and fetching green eyes. But this is a special occasion, and Amber, 16, wants to look her best. She's being filmed for a Wednesday's Childsegment on KTVB in Boise, Idaho, so she can find a family. A forever family that will do the ordinary things families do--go on picnics, eat out and see movies together. Amber has had four foster-care placements during the past two years. "I just want a mom and dad who will...
...years ago, you could have filed Amber's quest under impossible dreams. Teenagers were so hard to place with adoptive families that scarcely anyone tried. "If you talked about finding a home...
child, that meant the kid was 7 or 8," says Chester Jackson, associate executive director of You Gotta Believe, a New York City adoption agency that specializes in placing teens. But today the odds are much improved for adolescents like Amber. Of the 119,000 children awaiting adoption in the U.S., roughly half are 9 or older and about 40,000 are 11 or older. In 2002--the last year for which there are federal statistics--about 10,000 such kids found adoptive families. That's up sharply from 1998, when 6,000 were adopted, and most experts believe that...
...result has been some aggressive new strategies to recruit families, even for kids in their late teens. Televised videos like the one Amber prepared are just one of those strategies. Wednesday's Child, a nonprofit organization that places teens in Oregon and Idaho, helps create videos, which air as a weekly feature on the local news and on a website. The technique worked for Jason, 18. Jeri and George Soulier of Weiser, Idaho, saw a profile of Jason on the Wednesday's Child website last summer and quickly arranged to meet him. They have since taken him into their home...
This is not When Harry Met Sally, but Hitch does perform one of that film’s most astonishing tricks: Hitch believably turns Kevin James into a romantic lead worthy of Amber Valletta. If nothing else, the film is inspiring for all those goofy, awkward, smart Harvard men with few social skills...