Of the estimated 50,000 to 100,000 children in foster care awaiting adoption, 67 percent are black.

A wage scale agreement is awaiting adoption of a code for the industry".

One has been adopted, another is awaiting adoption, and they are all doing well, he said.

How can the international community offer aid to ease the suffering of these children as they await adoption?

But he said 12,000 children remain in foster care awaiting adoption.

Nine of the 24 children who were in last year's show were adopted, and three more are awaiting adoption.

In the last four years, the number of special-needs children awaiting adoption has jumped more than 30 percent, from 750 to 1,000.

For children awaiting adoption, the abuse rate is more than 12 times that threshold.

In Massachusetts, some 4,400 names appear on the state's list of children awaiting adoption.

He has been treated and placed in a foster home awaiting adoption.