{"id":6881,"date":"2023-11-06T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T11:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=6881"},"modified":"2023-11-06T11:18:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T11:18:40","slug":"national-adoption-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=6881","title":{"rendered":"National Adoption Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/national-adoption-month\/\">https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/national-adoption-month\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In nineteen eighty-four, then-President Ronald Reagan declared a week in November as National Adoption Week. President Bill Clinton declared the first National Adoption Month in nineteen ninety-five. National Adoption Month calls on individuals, families, churches, businesses, organizations, and states to celebrate adoption. Adoption is encouraged as a positive way to grow families. Many fundraising drives, recognition dinners, community activities, and awareness campaigns are held across the nation to observe this month.<\/p>\n<p>As someone who was adopted, National Adoption Month is especially important to me. Whether adoption happens privately or through the foster care system, this option allows for children to be given a permanent family, which greatly increases the likelihood that they will grow up healthy and well-adjusted in every respect.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/\">WIFamilyCouncil.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/national-adoption-month\/ In nineteen eighty-four, then-President Ronald Reagan declared a week&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wfc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6882,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6881\/revisions\/6882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}