Hundreds of adoptive mothers celebrate their first Mother's Day

Rocky Hill Post, May 9, 2008

Wide Horizons For Children (WHFC), a leading non-profit adoption and child welfare agency, is honoring the hundreds of mothers who fulfilled their dream of motherhood this year by adopting a child. Of the 654 children placed by Wide Horizons For Children since last Mother's Day, 536 children have been placed with first-time parents. In Connecticut alone, the agency placed 32 children with first-time parents since last Mother's Day.

Additionally, seven families will be arriving home from Ethiopia with their newly adopted children during the Mother's Day weekend. The agency is also honoring the many birth-mothers and foster moms around the world on Birth-Mother's Day, which falls on Saturday, May 10th.

Christina Foreman, a single mother from Windsor, CT adopted a baby girl from Ethiopia in February. Her daughter Samara has special medical needs but is doing well thanks to her mother's love, strength and the expert medical care she's received. "We were in the hospital and heard a loud crash above our heads. I instinctively threw my body across Samara's," Christina recounts. "It was then that I realized I had become her mother, and her life was worth more than my own to me."

"So many women have been longing to celebrate being a mom on Mother's Day for a long time" said Vicki Peterson, Executive Director of External Affairs at Wide Horizons For Children. "We are delighted to play a role in helping the dream of motherhood come true for so many people through the process of adoption. It is a true joy and great wonder for each mother and child."