Like everybody else, I thank you for your stories this morning. It certainly gives me hope for our children and, because of that, for our future.
Having said that, there are lots of challenges. Our work is to figure out what we, as the federal government, might do to facilitate and make that easier.
I heard a number of you speak of attachment issues and the need for more time with your children to get to know them, and to learn how to dance together more cohesively. You mentioned the EI system and the actual benefits that would be helpful, which you don't get but natural parents do, But I also heard, underneath that, a couple of things. One is that if you had more resources, you could do a lot more.
Each of you talked about finding resources to help with some of the challenges of the children you have taken into your families. It goes back, for me, to a study that we just finished on poverty and what we might put in place by way of national programs to support families. One of them was a very strong recommendation for a national child care program. Would that be helpful to adoptive parents?