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A look back at the Adopt 8 kids of 2012

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By Marcella Lee, Anchor/Reporter - bio | email

This past year on Adopt 8, we featured 34 children - kids who are considered "difficult to place," for various reasons.

We are happy to share with you that many of these kids are enjoying the holidays with their new families, but sadly 10 of the children we profiled in 2012 still have no family to call their own.

In the above Adopt 8 video, Photojournalist Ann Marie Spaulding and Marcella Lee take a look back at the children featured in 2012.

Since Adopt 8 first aired in November 1999, 675 foster children have been featured with 441 of these kids now in a forever home.

And we thank the wonderful families in San Diego who have opened up their homes and hearts to expand their families through adoption.

If you're interested in adopting or becoming a foster family, call 1-877-I-ADOPT-U.

To meet other children in foster care and discover how you can help restore their hope, please click here.

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  • Wednesday, May 22 2013 4:08 PM EDT2013-05-22 20:08:18 GMT
    In many ways Leward is a typical 11-year-old boy, he likes eating out, going to the movies and playing video games. But what Leward is missing is a family.
    There is an urgent need to find a forever home for a 12-year-old boy. Leward is living in an emergency children's shelter right now, and what worries him most in life is not knowing where he will end up. Leward simply wants what most kids take for granted.

  • Monday, May 6 2013 7:41 PM EDT2013-05-06 23:41:56 GMT
    Not all children in the foster care system are looking to be adopted. The goal for many of them is reunification with their birth family.
    Not all children in the foster care system are looking to be adopted. The goal for many of them is reunification with their birth family. However during that process, these kids need loving foster families to give them some stability.

  • Monday, April 29 2013 3:34 PM EDT2013-04-29 19:34:48 GMT
    He's a 14-year-old boy who doesn't know what sharing Christmastime with family even feels like.
    He's a 14-year-old boy who doesn't know what sharing Christmastime with family even feels like. Isaac says he's happy in his group home, because he knows no other life. This polite young man is in desperate need of a family to help guide him through these impressionable teenage years.
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