I know what I really want for Mother's Day. I want to be punished. I want to be told that I am to have no contact with the outside world for at least a weekend.
Rosemary McDonough, left, board chairwoman for the National Council for Adoption, addressed a gathering at the home of Pamela and Larry Stevenson in Gladwyne last night on the importance of adoption. Also Council President and CEO Thomas Atwood, right, spoke about the Council’s efforts, both here and overseas, to raise awareness about the necessity to raise the rate of adoption. Photo by Matthew Godfrey of The Evening Bulletin.
Consider this: Each year, thousands of children enter the foster care system, totally dependent on the decisions of a complex web of social workers, lawyers and family court judges. Yet, these judges often receive no training to address issues of children in foster care, and lack a sense of urgency about their needs. Many judges have no means to gather data, observe trends, or review the progress of individual children. They have no means to learn whether their interventions work.