National Adoption Month, 2018

Presidental Documents

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.

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.