MASSACHUSETTS JUDGES LEGALIZE
182 ADOPTIONS IN THIRD
ANNUAL NATIONAL ADOPTION DAY
Hundreds
of people took part in National Adoption Day festivities
on November 18, 2005 in courthouses throughout the Commonwealth
to celebrate the adoptions of 182 foster children by
Massachusetts families. Juvenile Court and Probate and
Family Court judges finalized the legal adoptions during
the third annual National Adoption Day in ceremonies
involving the Juvenile Courts of Barnstable, Berkshire,
Bristol, Brockton, Essex, Franklin/Hampshire, Hampden,
Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk, and Worcester
Counties, and the Probate and Family Courts of Bristol,
Hampden, Middlesex, Plymouth, and Suffolk Counties.
Addressing
the audience in a ceremony at the Edward W. Brooke Courthouse
in Boston, Supreme Judicial Court Justice Roderick L.
Ireland said, “ Adoption cases are the most satisfying
and rewarding cases that the juvenile justice system
deals with, creating loving, permanent families working
together toward happy lives. In adoption cases, everyone
wins—not just the children, not just the parents,
but all of us—the whole society.”
The
Massachusetts Trial Court, in cooperation with the Massachusetts
Adoption Resource Exchange and the Massachusetts Department
of Social Services, assists in the organization of statewide
events to encourage families to adopt children out of
the foster care system and give them loving and caring
homes. Judges across the country finalized more than
3,325 adoptions on National Adoption Day.
See
photos from the Third National Adoption Day on November
18, 2005
