With almost 50 years of adoption expertise, Wide Horizons is the partner you can trust to grow your family. We work with families across the United States to provide loving homes to vulnerable children from around the world.
Waiting Children are kids who need a little extra help finding just the right family. They are children who are ready to be adopted NOW, but Wide Horizons does not have a family identified to match them with. While the majority of the children we place for adoption are not Waiting Children, considering a child on our Waiting Child photo listing may open your heart to a child who really needs a family. There is no definition of who becomes “waiting”, but the kids tend to be one or more of the following:
When Dianne and Bill wanted to adopt, they worked with WHFC to put together a profile. The Massachusetts couple were introduced to an expectant mother in Arizona. Then they got the text message that would change their lives.
China is the most common choice for families looking to adopt a child with a special need. But statistically, adoptive parents choose girls. And so boys with special needs are disproportionately left out of the equation.
Orphans Isaiah and Veronica were born in China with Achondroplasia, which leads to dwarfism. Ordinarily that might mean an unlikely path for adoption. But they found a home with an American family already familiar with the condition.
Waiting Children are kids who need a little extra help finding just the right family. They are children who are ready to be adopted NOW, but Wide Horizons does not have a family identified to match them with. While the majority of the children we place for adoption are not Waiting Children, considering a child on our Waiting Child photo listing may open your heart to a child who really needs a family. There is no definition of who becomes “waiting”, but the kids tend to be one or more of the following:
“We will be forever grateful to Wide Horizons for advocating for our son, Jacob, on their Waiting Child list. We researched as much as we could about Cerebral Palsy. We were able to find rehabilitative specialists in our area and decided to move forward with pursuing the option of an older child. Now, it is difficult to believe his CP is truly considered a special need. Jacob is an amazing boy, he has received awards for kindness at his school, is clever and funny with a truly compassionate soul. His baseline emotion is happiness and he embraces life with an infectious enthusiasm. It breaks my heart to think we might have missed out on knowing this wonderful little boy if we had let an arbitrary age or fear of CP dissuade us from becoming his parents.”
—Jane on Jacob, Adopted through the Wide Horizons For Children China Program
You can request to review a waiting child’s file no matter where you are in the adoption process.
