[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 215 (Tuesday, November 6, 2018)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 55455-55456]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-24359]


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                Proclamation 9815 of October 31, 2018

                
National Adoption Month, 2018

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                During National Adoption Month, we recognize the 
                immeasurable love and support that adoptive parents and 
                families provide to hundreds of thousands of children 
                each year. We celebrate the life-changing act of 
                adoption, bring attention to the millions of Americans 
                who are eager to adopt, and express our gratitude to 
                the families who have welcomed children into their 
                lives and homes. My Administration also acknowledges 
                the courage of those mothers and fathers who place 
                their child for adoption. Our Nation grows stronger 
                because of the love and sacrifice of parents, both 
                birth and adoptive.

                Adoption is a blessing for all involved. It provides 
                needed relief to birth parents, who may not, for 
                whatever reason, be in a position to raise a child. It 
                fosters loving homes for children. It enables 
                individuals to grow their families and share their 
                love. And it fosters strong families, which are 
                integral to ensuring strong communities and a resilient 
                country. To secure the benefits of adoption, we must 
                continue to assist families who are willing to adopt 
                children in need of a permanent home and support the 
                adoptive families already formed. We must also 
                encourage all Americans to recognize that adoption is a 
                powerful way to show women they are not alone in an 
                unexpected pregnancy.

                My Administration is dedicated to supporting the 
                children in foster care who are seeking permanent 
                homes. Unfortunately, many youth leave foster care at 
                the age of 18 without lasting family connections. These 
                children deserve a permanent family, which can provide 
                them with love, stability, support, and encouragement 
                as they pursue personal, educational, and employment 
                goals and confront life's opportunities and challenges.

                Adoption affirms the inherent value of human life and 
                signals that every child--born or unborn--is wanted and 
                loved. Children, regardless of race, sex, age, or 
                disability, deserve a loving embrace into families they 
                can call their own. This month, we honor the thousands 
                of American families who have grown because of 
                adoption. We also stand with those children in foster 
                care, and we appeal to families, communities, and 
                houses of worship across our great Nation to help these 
                children find a permanent home.

                NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, 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 2018 as 
                National Adoption Month. I encourage all Americans to 
                observe this month by helping children in need of a 
                permanent home secure a more promising future with a 
                forever family, so they may enter adulthood with the 
                love and support we all deserve.

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                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                thirty-first day of October, in the year of our Lord 
                two thousand eighteen, and of the Independence of the 
                United States of America the two hundred and forty-
                third.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

[FR Doc. 2018-24359
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