“60% of Americans have a personal adoption story. Nearly two out of every three Americans know someone who has been adopted, has adopted a child, or has relinquished a child for adoption, according to a public opinion benchmark survey by Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute,” Judith Land, Author of Adoption Detective: Memoir of an Adopted Child.
Nearly two out of every three Americans knows someone who was adopted. Adoption became an American quintessential institution after it was formulated as a legal act with the child’s best interest in mind. Adoption Detective, Judith and Martin Land, (2011) p. xi
