WASHINGTON, April 20 -- Sen. John Kennedy issued the following press release:
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) issued a statement today to encourage families to learn more about the foster care system in America. He noted that most children available for adoption in America today are teenagers living in foster care, and he called on parents to consider whether they could provide a home for a teen in need.
Key excerpts of Kennedy statement are below:
"Many of the children waiting for adoption are teens. In fact, infants younger than one month old account for 62% of all domestic adoptions in our country, despite being just 2% of children eligible for adoption in our foster care system. The other 98% of these kids and teens in foster care are not ...