➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ:
US: Adoption has lifelong benefits: National Adoption Month highlights 1.5 million adopted kids in U.S.
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner – November 02, 2016
There are roughly 1.5 million adopted children in the U.S., comprising 2.5 percent of all American children. But the reach of adoption goes further: Almost 60 percent of Americans in a landmark 1997 survey said they knew someone who had been adopted, had adopted a child or relinquished a child for adoption. Those children come from all manner of backgrounds and locations – in 2009, children adopted by Americans came from 106 countries around the globe.
http://www.newsminer.com/opinion/editorials/adoption-has-lifelong-benefits-national-adoption-month-highlights-million-adopted/article_585faaa8-a0b7-11e6-b30c-fff20a31b8e1.html