Saturday, May 17, 2008
The New Kids are Coming to Denver
The New Kids on the Block are coming to Denver on November 14, 2008!!!! Yahoo! Tickets go on sale on June 9. You can bet I will do everything in my power to buy a ticket for the show. I'd love to get as close as possible too. I just hope that they aren't sold out before I get a ticket. I'll go by myself... I don't mind. I don't have any girl friends in Colorado and the people I am friends with probably wouldn't want to see the New Kids in concert anyway. For additional information on them, check out the following site. http://nkotb.com
NKOTB on the Today Show
I love you guys!!! :-) They were on the Today Show (I missed it because I was at work but it was posted on YouTube.) I am SO excited about seeing them live this time around. I've never seen them all together before in concert. I hope I can get to a concert. I'll fly somewhere if I have to.
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
The Hard Facts on Foster Children Waiting for Families
There are 114,000 children in the U.S. foster care system eligible and waiting to be adopted. These children have lived through loss, neglect and abuse and it is not their fault.
They wait an average of nearly 4 years to be adopted, with 21% - one out of every five, waiting, just waiting over five years for someone to love them.
Thus, many children languish for years in the foster care system frequently relocated, not belonging to anyone – feeling unloved, isolated, unwanted, undeserving – afraid to reach out to anyone, to trust, to believe in or to plan a future. If they remain un-adopted, the crushing heartache they experience affects their entire being every moment of every day for the rest of their life.
Each year, 38,000 of these children “age out” of the system when they reach their eighteenth birthday. Without financial or emotional support from anyone, many of these young adults struggle to belong and gain a place in society, to become productive citizens of our communities.
Of all youth aging out of the foster care system, national statistics indicate:
· 56% are unemployed and face poverty within two to four years,
· They represent 70% of all homeless youth,
· They constitute 88% of incarcerated youth and young adults,
· 40% receive welfare within two to four years,
· 40% do not graduate from high school, and
· 60% of the teenage girls will have a baby within two years.
These aging-out children are walking tragedies, waiting to happen
The above information is from http://www.adoptamericanetwork.org/
They wait an average of nearly 4 years to be adopted, with 21% - one out of every five, waiting, just waiting over five years for someone to love them.
Thus, many children languish for years in the foster care system frequently relocated, not belonging to anyone – feeling unloved, isolated, unwanted, undeserving – afraid to reach out to anyone, to trust, to believe in or to plan a future. If they remain un-adopted, the crushing heartache they experience affects their entire being every moment of every day for the rest of their life.
Each year, 38,000 of these children “age out” of the system when they reach their eighteenth birthday. Without financial or emotional support from anyone, many of these young adults struggle to belong and gain a place in society, to become productive citizens of our communities.
Of all youth aging out of the foster care system, national statistics indicate:
· 56% are unemployed and face poverty within two to four years,
· They represent 70% of all homeless youth,
· They constitute 88% of incarcerated youth and young adults,
· 40% receive welfare within two to four years,
· 40% do not graduate from high school, and
· 60% of the teenage girls will have a baby within two years.
These aging-out children are walking tragedies, waiting to happen
The above information is from http://www.adoptamericanetwork.org/
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