- November brought us National Adoption Month which focuses on adoption from the foster care system.
- National Adoption Day, November 15, 2008, and RegDay, November were celebrated as part of National Adoption Month.
- Gay adoption took a big hit after the U.S. elections.
- Nebraska state senators were hard at work by mid-November in a special legislative session to repair the state's new safe haven law which resulted in 34 children being left at hospitals across the state. Nebraska legislatures revised the new safe haven law limiting the age of infants that can be abandoned without prosecution to the parents to 30 days instead of age 18.
- Nia Vardalos and husband Ian Gomez adopted a little girl and kept it quiet in the press until November in order to use the attention to further the message of National Adoption Month.
- 20/20 interviewed an adoptive couple who were very open with their adoption of 3 older children from Russia. We talked about what we could learn from the Mulligan family.
2008 - A Year in Review
By Carrie Craft, About.com Guide
See More About:
Other Years in Review
Make a New Year's Resolution
Related Articles
- 2007 a Year in Review - Adoption News - Foster Care News - 2007 Year in Rev...
- 2006 in Review - Adoption News - Foster Care News - 2006 Year in Review and...
- 2007 a Year in Review - Adoption News - Foster Care News - 2007 Year in Rev...
- 2008 a Year in Review - Foster Care News - 2008 Year in Review and Lots of ...
- Year in Review - 2010 Year in Review November
Explore Adoption / Foster Care
Must Reads
- Adoption Tax Credit in 2011
- Thinking About Adopting?
- Foster Care 101
- 7 Ways to Afford the Cost of Adoption
- Foster Kids and School
Most Popular
See More About:
By Category
- About.com
- Parenting & Family
- Adoption / Foster Care
- Adoption News & Media
- 2008 a Year in Review - Foster Care News - 2008 Year in Review and Lots of Celebrity Adoption News
©2012 About.com. All rights reserved.
A part of The New York Times Company.