Adoption is Redemption"Whether you are a social worker, adoption professional, adoptee, foster parent, an adoptive parent, there are invaluable lessons to be learned from this young woman's experiences." Maureen Flatley Consultant specializing in adoption and child welfare policy Each year in America, 535,000 kids under the age of eighteen go through the foster care system and the process of adoption. I recount my experience of losing my parents at a young age in Ethiopia,