More than 2,000 children in North Carolina live in foster care, waiting and hoping for adoption, with more than 600 of them being teenagers who face tougher odds of getting adopted.Adopt US Kids says a quarter of those children are teenagers who face tougher odds of getting adopted.Now in its 20th year, Adopt US Kids has helped place more than a million kids in adopted homes.This year’s campaign focuses on teens under the tagline, “You can’t imagine the reward.” A young man adopted as a teenager shares what kids are looking for.”Wanting love, wanting to wake up in the morning and know that they’re going to lay their head down at the same place because the real big problem across the US is just not having a place to call home,” Taylor Durard said.Durard says until he was adopted, he didn’t have the capacity to dream about opportunities.”All I could …
