HUNDREDS of children will never lose the label 'wards of the State' because their biological parents are failing to sign over their rights to have them adopted by families who have been fostering them for years.
Now, some families who have answered the call to become foster parents are second-guessing this decision as they try unsuccessfully to adopt their young charges, despite being the only parents many of these children will ever know.
Although there are 900 children in foster care, only eight were adopted between April and August 2013, the most recent figures available from the Child Development Agency (CDA) revealed. Between April 2012 and August 2013 only 48 wards of the State were adopted. read more
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