Presidential Document2021-24114
National Adoption Month, 2021
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November 3, 2021
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October 29, 2021
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[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 210 (Wednesday, November 3, 2021)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 60533-60534]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2021-24114]
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 210 / Wednesday, November 3, 2021 /
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Proclamation 10296 of October 29, 2021
National Adoption Month, 2021
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
Every child deserves to grow up with a safe and loving
family, with the care and support of their community.
During National Adoption Month, we celebrate all of the
children and families nurtured, enriched, and made
whole by adoption and recommit ourselves to ensuring
that every child in America can grow up in a loving and
supportive home.
The COVID-19 pandemic has made it especially
challenging for children in the foster care system. For
thousands of young people in foster care, navigating
the challenges of growing up can be especially
difficult without stable family connections. Because of
the added difficulties imposed by the pandemic, my
Administration has implemented the substantial
investments made through the Supporting Foster Youth
and Families Through the Pandemic Act to help older
adolescents transitioning from the foster care system
maintain housing, stay in school, pay the bills, and
lay a strong foundation for adulthood. My
Administration encourages States to continue using
these available funds to support older foster youth in
every way they can.
During this month, we also acknowledge the history of
injustices and racial bias in our Nation's child
welfare system. To this day, Black and Native American
children are more likely to be removed from their
homes, more likely to stay in care longer, and less
likely to be adopted than white children. To ensure the
equal dignity and care of all our children, we must
improve our efforts to keep families together, prevent
the trauma of unnecessary child removal, and recruit
and support new adoptive families--especially kinship
caregivers. Finally, we must further support families
who have already taken youth into their homes and
invest the time and energy needed to ensure that all
children--including LGBTQ+ youth whose needs are not
always met in the foster care system--can find the
happiness and well-being that every child and young
person deserves.
This National Adoption Month, we celebrate the families
who have been forged through adoption, including from
foster care. We extend our gratitude to the dedicated
professionals who work tirelessly to support adoptive
families through compassion and hard work and to the
foster families who love, care, and provide for our
Nation's foster youth. Most importantly, we acknowledge
the strength and resiliency of the children and youth
who are still waiting to find their forever homes.
NOW, THEREFORE I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the
United States of America, by virtue of the authority
vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the
United States, do hereby proclaim November 2021 as
National Adoption Month. I encourage all Americans to
observe this month by helping children and youth in
need of a permanent home secure a more promising future
with a forever family and enter adulthood with the love
and connections that are so important to their growth.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
twenty-ninth day of October, in the year of our Lord
two thousand twenty-one, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and forty-
sixth.
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