The Adoption 2002 Initiative was a program instituted in the United States during the late 1990s by the

Clinton Administration Bill Clinton's tenure as the 42nd president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 1993, and ended on January 20, 2001. Clinton, a Democrat from Arkansas, took office following a decisive election victory over Re ...

. Based on the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997, the aim of the program was to lower barriers to

adoption Adoption is a process whereby a person assumes the parenting of another, usually a child, from that person's biological or legal parent or parents. Legal adoptions permanently transfer all rights and responsibilities, along with filiation, from ...

and double the rate of adoption of children in foster care by 2002 from a 1996 figure of 27,000 to a 2002 figure of 54,000. The name "Adoption 2002" was first used for a report requested by President Bill Clinton by executive memorandum on December 14, 1996.

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