many adoptive families need more support

Bluntly acknowledging the challenges faced by many adoptive families, a coalition of child welfare and adoption groups is appealing for a national reappraisal of how best to provide sustained, effective support and keep grim outcomes to a minimum.
A large majority of adoptions go well, but a few end disastrously, and others entail wrenching emotional and financial struggles for adoptive families as they take in children from U.S. foster homes and overseas orphanages.
In a report being released Thursday, endorsed by many leading players in the adoption community, the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute said too many families are not receiving essential services while raising children who previously had been abused, neglected or institutionalized.
"The good news is that most of them, and their families, are doing just fine," said the institute's executive director, Adam Pertman. "The bad news is that the ones who need help too often aren't getting it."
The report, "Keeping The Promise," links the current challenges to the changing face of adoption over the past two decades. Adoption of relinquished infants has become far rarer, now numbering an estimated 14,000 a year, while adoptions out of foster care — involving many children who suffered abuse or neglect — have soared from about 31,000 in 1997 to more than 57,000 last year.
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