Every Mom Has A Journey towards becoming a Mom, at Last
By Nicole Witt
Most of what we know of adoption we get from the media or from our past. We see Angelina Jolie and Madonna adopting kids from around the globe. We remember adopted kids from our childhood neighborhood. But neither is a true picture of adoption today. [Read more...]
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By: James Matthews
Although international adoption has received a great deal of attention lately, largely due to the prevalence of celebrities taking in children from foreign countries, many children each year are taken into new homes on the domestic front and remains a great way to build a family. [Read more...]
By: Mardie Caldwell
Many people have made the decision to adopt internationally because they were not educated as to their domestic options. It’s unfathomable that people would think that there was some type of shortage of children to adopt right here in the United States. Nothing could be further from the truth! [Read more...]
Adoption may be something that nearly everyone is familiar with, but fewer may know what the process involves and just how difficult it can be for those involved. Oxygen Media is now attempting to fill that void with a new six-part docu-series entitled “I’m Having Their Baby,” which offers an inside look at the world of adopting a child, including the story of the birth mother and her experience in letting go and making such an important decision. [Read more...]
NEW YORK – Fewer children would be stuck in foster care if state authorities reduced red tape and standardized procedures nationwide to encourage more adoptions by out-of-state families, according to a coalition of child welfare experts appealing for change.
“Children wait in foster care not because there aren’t enough families to adopt them, but because of artificial barriers we erect,” said Jeff Katz, executive director of Listening to Parents, a Boston-based group that organized the initiative. [Read more...]
FRANKLIN, Tenn. – At a time of life when many Americans would be checking on the 401(k)s, and helping the kids move out of the nest, 57-year-olds Marla and Dwayne Hastings are part of a close-knit group of faithful 50-somethings who are starting family all over again through adoption.
The Franklin, Tenn., couple, who have five grown children, just a few weeks ago brought home their third child from an orphanage in China, a 5-year-old boy with a huge smile whom they’ve named Hudson.
He joined big brother James, 8, who joined the family in 2008, and big sister Gracee, also 8, who came to the Hastings’ home in 2005.
“People think we’re crazy,” says Marla, who adds that people thought they were crazy when they kept on having children back in the day. Or when her husband left a corporate job for seminary.
“They ask, ‘Why?’ ” she says. “We say, ‘Why not?’ ”
These older adopters have spurred on one another, mentored adoptive families and created ministries based on the conviction that Christians are called to take care of orphans.
“We first saw it as rescuing them,” says Marla Hastings shaking her head. “But it changed,” says her husband. “It’s God rescuing us from a self-centered life.”
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Heart to Heart Adoption Utah would like to announce the publishing of its new website. The new site features some exciting things like “Adoption Profiles.” This page includes photographs and information about each family that is hoping to adopt a baby. Clicking on a photo brings up a separate page where you can locate additional information about the family. General information like where they live, occupations, hobbies and a personal note from the family to a potential birth mom are included.
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