Starting This Project

When I was home from school one day and watching Ellen, I saw this commercial about adopting kids in Pennsylvania. This became the inspiration for my project. The adoption process has always been something that fascinated me, but I do not know much of the facts on it or what it is really like to be a part of it. My plan is to look deeper into the adoption/foster care system in America. I want to study the effects being part of this has on the kids lives, I want to know what it is like being raised this way, and I want to look at the success stories of kids who were adopted. Through this, I am trying to bring awareness to the adoption and foster care systems and show how much we forget about the people being raised this way. It is a way to see how we take having a family for granted, by looking at the stories of kids who are not as fortunate. I do not completely know where I want to go with this or how to start it, but this is the basics of my idea.