Adoption Information:
Around 100,000 children are adopted in America every
year, and the numbers are going up as the stigma surrounding
adoption dissolves and families become more
aware of adoption as an option. Some of these children are adopted domestically
through state funded or private agencies; others come to their forever homes
from distant lands.
According to the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, six
out of ten Americans are affected by adoption in some way. So, odds are, either
as an unsure pregnant woman, a couple struggling with infertility, a woman with
a desire to adopt orphans, or a close friend or family member to one of these,
adoption will touch your life. And as a Christian, aren’t we are all touched by
adoption since God adopted us?
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places
in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that
we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to
adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of
His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted
in the Beloved. (Ephesians 1:3-6)
Did you know????
*There are Christian adoption agencies that will
only place children into approved Christian homes.
*Most adoption agencies have
social workers that provide financially and judgment free counseling to pregnant
women to help them decide if adoption is right for them.
*Birthmoms don’t “give up” babies;
they lovingly choose not to parent them and place them gently into the arms of
an adoptive family.
*Birthmothers can choose
the family they wish to parent their child.
*Birthparents can have ongoing
communication with their children, even after the adoption is final.
*The US Government has a
$10,900 tax credit for adoptive families to alleviate adoption expenses.
*A UNAIDS/UNICEF/USAID
collaboration ‘Children on the Brink 2004’ estimates that there are a
total of 143 million orphans worldwide!
*Adoption through the state foster
care system bears minimal to no cost to the adoptive family.
*Some countries have escorts
available to bring your child to you, so travel to another country is not
necessary in all intercountry adoptions.
*Once an adoption is finalized by
the courts, it’s final. No one can disrupt an adoption beyond this point.
*There are online and community
support groups available for birthparents, adoptees, and adoptive families-no
matter where you live.
We welcome you to educate yourself on adoption here by
exploring the links. Regardless of what side of adoption you’re facing, we
encourage you to extend God’s perfect adoptive love for you with a child.
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