November is National Adoption Month, and in the United States, about 51,000 children were adopted in 2006, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
With this in mind, one local family shared their adoption experience they said in hopes of encouraging others to do so, WISC-TV reported.
Ten years ago, Reed and Sharon Leonard adopted their daughter from China.
"On the plane ride home, my wife said, 'Well, we have our daughter, we're done.' I said, 'No, I think we'll be back,'" said Reed Leonard.
"I said no way," laughed Sharon Leonard.
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