Waiting to be Adopted

Waiting to be Adopted

March 12, 2010 4:09 PM

More than 100,000 American kids are in foster care where the average stay is more than two years. Foster care children hope to be adopted one day, but as Mark Strassmann reports, some never will have their dream come true.

American Foster Kids Hold Out Hope
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