Please Help Save the Adoption Tax Credit

Friends and Family-

Right now there is a tax credit available to families whose adoptions have been finalized. The fees associated with the adoption process are well spent.  Expectant families receive counseling to help them consider all their options, parenting included.  This support system is offered through the adoption process and beyond, if that is that path they choose.  The agency also prepares and guides the adoptive families, facilitates the matching process, makes sure that the process goes as smoothly as possible, and offers more support if it doesn't.  However, these costs do add up.  It is all 100% worth it but this tax credit is a TREMENDOUS help!

If Congress does not act, the Adoption Tax Credit will expire on December 31, 2012, increasing the cost for qualifying families pursuing adoption through domestic private, foster care, and international programs.  (adoptiontaxcredit.org)

Today I called our congressional representative and expressed the importance of this tax credit to our family, asking for his support as well.  It took less than 5 minutes, I provided my name, address, and shared my support of the bipartisan bill H.R. 4373, the Making Adoption Affordable Act. 

If you have the desire and can make the time, please help us and all adoptive families by leaving a similar message for your congressional representative.  Every call makes such a difference because in their eyes it represents many people who feel the same way.

Here are the instructions the agency sent us:
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.

Thank you so much for your continued support.

-T and L