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AACAP: The Adopted Child
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http://www.aacap.org/cs/root/facts_for_families/the_adopted_child
Approximately 120,000 children are adopted each year in the United States. Children with physical, developmental, or emotional handicaps who were once considered unadoptable are now being adopted ("special needs adoptions"). Adoption helps many of these children to grow up in permanent families rather than in foster homes or institutions.