A Chance to Make a Tangible Difference
>> Wednesday, July 4, 2012
In general, there are a few times in our lives where we can directly change someone else's life for the better. This is one of those times.
Please help us and all the families who are currently adopting or want to adopt in the future. Without the Adoption Tax Credit, there is a good chance that we would not have been able to adopt Z or Kumquat (due in November). Certainly we will be hard pressed to adopt a third baby in the future, and possibly not able to, if it expires.
Adoptions on average cost between $20,000 and $40,000 per child. And most of us who adopt are not like Madonna or Angelina Jolie/Brad Pitt, with enormous sums of money at our disposal. We are average Americans, with average jobs, average incomes, and average debt.
The Adoption Tax Credit can be the difference between a child growing up in a loving home or not. It can be the difference between a house filled with tears, or a home full of laughter. It can mean the difference between abortion and life.
Please take the time to contact your Congressman. You can directly make a real difference not just in our lives, our children, our birth mother and her family; but in the lives of everyone else who is touched directly or indirectly by adoption.
All it takes is an email or phone call.
This is how you can act (Thank you Facebook people who are passing this along):
If Congress does not act, the Adoption Tax Credit, as we now know it, will expire on December 31, 2012.
If the adoption tax credit helped you or someone you know to adopt a child or if it could help you in the future to adopt a child, PLEASE CALL YOUR U.S. CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVE TODAY and urge that he or she cosponsor the bipartisan bill H.R. 4373, the Making Adoption Affordable Act.
Action:
You can reach your Representative by calling the U.S. Capitol Operator at 202.225.3121 and asking for your Representative's office. If you don't know your Representative's name, go to www.house.gov/representatives/find and enter your zip code in the box provided.
Message:
I am a constituent in your district and the Adoption Tax Credit is important to me. (It matters to me because...) I urge the Representative to become a co-sponsor of H.R. 4373, The Making Adoption Affordable Act. If Congress does not act the credit as we now know it will expire in December 2012. H.R. 4373 is bipartisan and it supports all types of adoptions (domestic private, foster care, and international). This tax credit has made adoption a more viable option for many parents who might not otherwise have been able to afford adoption, allowing them to provide children with loving, permanent families.Thank you for your support of H.R. 4373.
To learn more about the adoption tax credit go to www.adoptiontaxcredit.org.
You can also, "like" the Save the Adoption Tax Credit mission on Facebook at: www.facebook.com/AdoptionTaxCredit.
Thank you for taking a few minutes to make this important phone call!
Please help us and all the families who are currently adopting or want to adopt in the future. Without the Adoption Tax Credit, there is a good chance that we would not have been able to adopt Z or Kumquat (due in November). Certainly we will be hard pressed to adopt a third baby in the future, and possibly not able to, if it expires.
Adoptions on average cost between $20,000 and $40,000 per child. And most of us who adopt are not like Madonna or Angelina Jolie/Brad Pitt, with enormous sums of money at our disposal. We are average Americans, with average jobs, average incomes, and average debt.
The Adoption Tax Credit can be the difference between a child growing up in a loving home or not. It can be the difference between a house filled with tears, or a home full of laughter. It can mean the difference between abortion and life.
Please take the time to contact your Congressman. You can directly make a real difference not just in our lives, our children, our birth mother and her family; but in the lives of everyone else who is touched directly or indirectly by adoption.
All it takes is an email or phone call.
This is how you can act (Thank you Facebook people who are passing this along):
If Congress does not act, the Adoption Tax Credit, as we now know it, will expire on December 31, 2012.
If the adoption tax credit helped you or someone you know to adopt a child or if it could help you in the future to adopt a child, PLEASE CALL YOUR U.S. CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVE TODAY and urge that he or she cosponsor the bipartisan bill H.R. 4373, the Making Adoption Affordable Act.
Action:
You can reach your Representative by calling the U.S. Capitol Operator at 202.225.3121 and asking for your Representative's office. If you don't know your Representative's name, go to www.house.gov/representatives/find and enter your zip code in the box provided.
Message:
I am a constituent in your district and the Adoption Tax Credit is important to me. (It matters to me because...) I urge the Representative to become a co-sponsor of H.R. 4373, The Making Adoption Affordable Act. If Congress does not act the credit as we now know it will expire in December 2012. H.R. 4373 is bipartisan and it supports all types of adoptions (domestic private, foster care, and international). This tax credit has made adoption a more viable option for many parents who might not otherwise have been able to afford adoption, allowing them to provide children with loving, permanent families.Thank you for your support of H.R. 4373.
To learn more about the adoption tax credit go to www.adoptiontaxcredit.org.
You can also, "like" the Save the Adoption Tax Credit mission on Facebook at: www.facebook.com/AdoptionTaxCredit.
Thank you for taking a few minutes to make this important phone call!
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