By Iryn D.
Cubangbang
DSWD Information Officer II
Adoptive/Foster parents with their children during their first ‘congress.’ (DSWD photo) |
THE DEPARTMENT of Social
Work and Development Field Office 1 in cooperation with Child Advocates
Association Inc. held the First Adoptive, Foster Parents and Children’s
Congress at the Regional Rehabilitation Center for Youth in Bauang, La Union.
The congress resolved issues experienced by foster and adoptive parents and
their children and formed a support group as part of adoption post services.
In his message, DSWD
Director Marcelo Nicomedes J. Castillo expressed the need to encourage and
recruit for more adoptive and foster parents who could provide a caring home
and/or permanent family for the increasing number of abandoned, neglected and
abused children of Region 1.
With the said congress,
adoptive and foster parents were uplifted with the shared testimonies, getting
strength from the same situations made them realized that the group is a good
avenue of sharing the difficulties as well as happiness of being a foster or
adoptive parent, said lead convenor
Clarivel Banzuela.
“Raising an
adopted child gives the same happiness and contentment just like having a
biological child,” said Myrna Aplot an adoptive parent. “As mentioned, her
angel now completes her life and family.”
Further, Myrna
Aplot affirmed that with the activity, “We felt the sincerity of DSWD, totoo palang may concern sila sa amin [they really care about us].”
To note,
adoption is defined as a socio-legal process of providing a permanent
family to a child whose parents have voluntarily or involuntarily relinquished
parental authority over the child; while foster care refers to provision of
planned substitute parental care to a child by a foster family.
This event
supports the Children’s Month celebration with the theme “Kahirapan Wakasan,
Karapatan ng Bata Ipaglaban” giving focus on four basic rights of a child
anchored on survival, development, protection and participation.
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