{"id":4676,"date":"2006-03-12T22:39:54","date_gmt":"2006-03-12T22:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4676"},"modified":"2025-09-25T14:45:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T14:45:37","slug":"adoption_and_do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4676","title":{"rendered":"Adoption and Down&#8217;s Syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many people would find it hard to believe, but there are waiting lists of families looking to adopt children with Down&#8217;s Syndrome. A few years ago I corresponded with a woman who had arranged for about 2,000 adoptions.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a good article.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/HEALTH\/parenting\/02\/13\/down.syndrome.adoption.ap\/\">CNN.com &#8211; Children with Down syndrome sought for adoption &#8211; Feb 13, 2006<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE Sept. 7, 2006 &#8211; The CNN link has gone &quot;bad&quot;. For information on adopting children with Down&#8217;s Syndrome, go here: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adoption.org\/adopt\/down-syndrome-adoption-agencies.php\">DOWN SYNDROME ADOPTION AGENCIES<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>or here:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kumc.edu\/gec\/support\/down_syn.html\">Down syndrome<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people would find it hard to believe, but there are waiting lists of families looking to adopt children with Down&#8217;s Syndrome. A few years ago I corresponded with a woman who had arranged for about 2,000 adoptions. Here&#8217;s a good article.CNN.com &#8211; Children with Down syndrome sought for adoption &#8211; Feb 13, 2006 UPDATE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5396,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4676\/revisions\/5396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}