From LGBT organizations to NYC mayor Mike Bloomberg, it seems almost everyone across the nation is cheering Rhode Island for today’s vote that all but ensures the Ocean State will become America’s tenth to extend marriage to same-sex couples.

Many of these children are told in Liberia the U.S. is “heaven,” some of the children’s parents often believe they are not being adopted but just going away to school, then some of these children become immediate second-class citizens, used for labor, live in compounds, receive no formal education, are beaten and abused, and, sadly, some have died.