International adoption is in crisis here in the United States.

Intercountry adoptions have decreased more than 80 percent since 2004, and many adoption advocates estimate that, at this rate, and without a change in what appears to be the anti-international-adoption bias and policies inside the leadership of the Department of State’s Office of Children’s Issues, they may completely end by 2022. 

Here on this blog, we stand 200 percent behind the rights of children to grow up not as orphans but in families; not in institutions, but in homes. 

Research shows the long-term scars that institutional care and lack of early attachment leave on a child for the rest of his life. 

And although we believe that a loving family in a child’s birth country is the most beneficial, so a child can easily maintain his culture and heritage, we know that it is not always POSSIBLE. And when an adoptive family is not viable or available in his or her home country, his human right to grow up in a family where he can enjoy attachment, protection and provision should not be relinquished.  

Because in many cases, and for many sick, needy and special needs superheroes, it could literally mean death.