{"id":10813,"date":"2014-11-03T08:36:46","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T16:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nnlm.gov\/pnr\/dragonfly\/?p=10813"},"modified":"2026-02-03T17:02:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:02:37","slug":"national-adoption-week-is-november-3-9","status":"archive","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/national-adoption-week-is-november-3-9\/","title":{"rendered":"National Adoption Week is November 3-9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many people look forward to having their own biological children at some point in their lives. However, many find that is not possible for various reasons.\u00a0 Adoption is another way to become a parent.\u00a0 It is also a way to gain a parent.\u00a0 For many adoptees, being welcomed into a loving family is also an event to be anticipated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/medlineplus\/adoption.html\">MedlinePlus<\/a> offers a selection of authoritative resources on all things adoption whether it is financial and legal issues or searching for biological relatives.\u00a0 These resources will offer insight into the option of adoption for those considering or information for adopted families who have additional information needs just as many families do along the way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"\/pnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2014\/11\/kids.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10831 size-thumbnail\" src=\"\/pnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2014\/11\/kids-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"School Kids\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people look forward to having their own biological children at some point in their lives. However, many find that is not possible for various reasons.\u00a0 Adoption is another way to become a parent.\u00a0 It is also a way to gain a parent.\u00a0 For many adoptees, being welcomed into a loving family is also an&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/national-adoption-week-is-november-3-9\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10813","post","type-post","status-archive","format-standard","hentry","category-regional-news"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15733,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10813\/revisions\/15733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}