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...About the Children Click on a question to see the answer. Or scroll down to read all the answers.
WHO ARE THE CHILDREN SHOWN ON FREDDIE MAC FOUNDATION'S WEDNESDAY'S CHILD?Children shown on Wednesday's Child are children in need of permanent adoptive families. Like other children who wait to be adopted, most are school-aged or teenagers. Many have emotional, physical or learning disabilities, or mental retardation. There are brothers and sisters who need to stay together. More than half of the children come from minority cultures. Most children waiting for adoption are foster children, living in foster homes or group homes because their parents were unable to care for them. Often, personal and family problems made it impossible for the parents to maintain a home for their children. Some of these children have been abused, neglected or abandoned. In most cases, their parents' rights have been legally terminated; in others, those rights will be terminated when an adoptive family is found. The children are in the care of their state or county. Despite their special needs and the challenges they may have faced in their young lives, Wednesday's Children are really just children. They are playful, fun-loving, resilient, deserving, and ready to make a new beginning. See Adoption Article:
Should
I Expect a Child to Be Legally Free? Back to TopHOW CAN I FIND OUT IF A CHILD IS STILL AVAILABLE?If a child is currently shown on the Freddie Mac Foundation's Wednesday's Child website, then that child is still available, as far as we know. The website coordinator depends on Wednesday's Child workers in each of the cities to keep the children's information up to date. When a child has a family selected, or if a child is no longer ready for adoption, perhaps due to hospitalization or another setback, the worker updates that child's record, and the child is removed from the site. See Adoption Article: How Can I Place a Child on Hold? WHY ISN'T THERE MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE CHILDREN?The Internet is
a very public place, where a child's description may be read by her
classmates, teachers, neighbors, and birth family members, as well
as by the child herself. Those providing the information about a child
try to give honest information without violating dignity and privacy. See Adoption Article: Why Children's Internet Descriptions Don't Say More Back to TopHOW CAN I GET MORE INFORMATION ABOUT A CHILD I AM INTERESTED IN?If you have a current homestudy, use the online interest form to tell Wednesday's Child workers in the child's city about yourself. Someone will contact you within 2 business days. If a child's worker thinks your family may be a match for a child, he or she will request a copy of your homestudy from your worker, and will send a child profile to your worker. If you are selected, you should receive all available information about the child's medical, emotional, developmental, and educational needs. Without a homestudy, you probably will not be able to get much more information about a child. One thing that you can do is visit the Wednesday's Child TV station website for the child's city. You may find brief additional information about a child, or a video of the Wednesday's Child broadcast which you can watch using the media player on your computer. To reach the TV station websites, click on the child's city above, then click on the TV station logo at the top of the city page. When you get to the TV station's home page, select Wednesday's Child. See Adoption Article:
How
Can I Get More Information? Back to TopWHY
AREN'T THERE BABIES ON FREDDIE MAC FOUNDATION'S WEDNESDAY'S CHILD?
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