John’s (not his real name) gait is confident, his shoulders are arched, and he smiles as he greets me, giving the sense that all is well. But a few minutes later his shoulders are slumped, and he fights back tears. None make it to the surface.
“I would like to get a family, but I don’t know…,” he trails off staring into space. “I really don’t want to live here forever, but I don’t know if I would get adopted,” he continues.
John is 11 years old, and one of the children in state care whom the Childcare and Protection Agency (C&PA) hopes will get adopted. But it is difficult to get children as old as him adopted, as many persons are interested in babies or toddlers.
