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Children play Thursday during the National Adoption Day event at the new Potter County Courthouse in downtown Amarillo. Looking ahead and how you can help — 'families come in all shapes and sizes'
On National Adoption Day courts and communities in the United States come together to finalize thousands of adoption of children from foster care.More than 300 events are held each year on the Saturday before Thanksgiving in November, in all 50 US states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico to finalize the adoptions of children in foster care.
Nov. 18—Some families are born together, some families are built. The adoption celebration Friday night gave recognition to those that go through the often long legal process to become a family.
The 2001 book, Primary Care Pediatrics, noted that adoptive family are rarely present for the child's birth and recommended a celebration "an addition to the traditional birthday celebration, that is, the 'gotcha day'." [8] Margaret Schwartz, in her book The Pumpkin Patch, declared September 15, 2005 as International Gotcha Day.
November has marked National Adoption Month in the US since 1995. Amber Raiken writes about the goals of the month, from showing support to children in the foster care system to highlighting the ...
A national day is a day on which celebrations mark the statehood or nationhood of a state or its people. It may be the date of independence, of becoming a republic, of becoming a federation, or a significant date for a patron saint or a ruler (such as a birthday, accession, or removal). The national day is often an official public holiday. Many ...
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Saudi Founding Day (Arabic: يوم التأسيس السعودي), officially the Founding Day (Arabic: يوم التأسيس), is a public holiday in Saudi Arabia celebrated annually on February 22 to commemorate the enthronement of Muhammad bin Saud as the emir of the oasis town of Diriyah in 1727 following the death of his father Saud al-Muqrin, the eponymous ancestor of the al-Saud family.