What to Expect If Adopting

Adoption offers a new life in a new family. New beginnings offer hope for a new future. Adoption indicates a wonderful beginning and time for healing of a child who needs a family. Most of the time adoption includes a wonderful answer for both the parents and the...

NOVEMBER – ADOPTION AWARENESS

The month of November is Adoption Awareness Month. This awareness theme gets a little old and can be lost on those who might turn away from the truth in adoption. Most of us learned that the squeaky wheel gets the grease. Adoption begs for squeaky wheels to step up...

5 Steps to Being Ready to Adopt

  You can know you are ready to adopt when: 1) You don’t have a need for a child but a desire to provide parenting to a child whose parents cannot. 2) You are willing to keep an historical and relational connection to a child’s biological family...

Heart of Adoption

Living the life of adoption seems to evoke various levels of emotion. Depending on your perspective, the feelings of numbness, anxiety, vigilance, reflection, fantasy, hope, despair, loss, gratitude or rejection (just to name a few) can be a constant companion. Maybe...