Ronald Reagan is, so far, the only adoptive parent to have been elected President. That may change come November for even though you may not have heard about it, there is one current presidential candidate who is also an adoptive parent, having received a little girl from Mother Teresa's orphanage in Bangladesh.In 1993, John McCain and his wife, Cindy, adopted Bridget. She has been a special blessing to the McCain family as have their other children, Meghan, Jack, and Jimmy. And the addition of Bridget to their family has helped make adoption advocacy a personal issue for the Senator.
As his official website describes, "The McCain family experience is not unique; millions of families have had their lives transformed by the adoption of a child. As president, motivated by his personal experience, John McCain will seek ways to promote adoption as a first option for women struggling with a crisis pregnancy. In the past, he cosponsored legislation to prohibit discrimination against families with adopted children, to provide adoption education, and to permit tax deductions for qualified adoption expenses, as well as to remove barriers to interracial and inter-ethnic adoptions."
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