Roughly 6,000 kids in Alabama are waiting for a forever home. Some lawmakers want to streamline the state’s adoption process to make that happen quicker.
. Alabama is the latest stop on their journey.“I tried to commit suicide several times because I felt like I was alone. I felt like I didn’t belong,” said Davon Woods.“Just having my brother — that’s the only blood I knew for 17 years,” said Davon Woods.
“It’s super important to have an adult at any stage in their life that is stable, and caring to help walk them through that process,” she said. “I think that the legislation that’s out there right now that’s working for kids whose parental rights have not been terminated. And often those kids or people see them as languishing in the system for too long,” said Bearman-Wolnek.
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