The waiting period for adopting a domestic newborn can vary from less than one month to over two years. According to Adoptive Families Magazine's article, How Long Does it Take to Adopt a Child?, 33% of domestic newborn adoptions having waiting …
Writing a Letter of Reference for an Adoption Home Study
When a family goes through the adoption process, whether it be domestic or international, they must complete a Home Study. An essential element of the Home Study process is for the prospective adoptive family to furnish several letters of …
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Timothy J. Keller, Tomatoes, and Adoption
Tim Keller’s, Ministries of Mercy, was first published in 1989. I turned 8 years old in 1989. My grandfather, the Rev. James Perry, recently passed on a copy of Mercy to me – tucked in a box with some old books. I love it when my grandfather gives …
Give the Gift of Orphan Care
The End of Orphan Care. "The End of Orphan Care is written by a man who is involved in every area of orphan care to which he speaks in this book: in government, in the home, and in the church. . . . [H]is heart for this book is for the church of …
Embryo Adoption Connection
We live in a very strange age of ethical quandaries. Currently in the United States, there are over 500,000 frozen embryos, or “snowflake babies,” waiting for their chance to really live.[1] For decades medical textbooks have presented the …
Fatherlessness Pandemic and the Adoption Response
In my estimation, there are three necessary elements for a person to be motivated to care for the fatherless in a way that pleases God: 1. the Word, 2. the Need, and 3. the Holy Spirit. Quite simply, the Word is the Bible and must be a …
Embryo Adoption
For decades medical textbooks have presented the consensus view that biological human life begins at conception.[1] For example, textbook authors Moore and Persaud explain that the very first cell resulting from fertilization “mark[s] the beginning …
Adoption and Orphan Care
James 1:27 gives the Christian a call to visit the orphan in their affliction. The research of Showhope.org points out the stark reality that "[c]hildren are profoundly affected as their parents fall sick and die, setting them on a long trail of …
Understanding Adoption
What is Adoption? Black’s Law Dictionary defines adoption as “[t]he creation of a parent-child relationship by judicial order between two parties who usu[ally] are unrelated.” This may seem obvious to you, Reader. However, what does the rest …
