Adoption: A Journey of Faith Amid Crosses
One of the most difficult things is adoption.
“We haven’t bought the crib yet… or car seat… or stroller… or even a pack of onesies.
In part, that’s because I don’t quite trust this will happen.
August is a long way away, and birth mothers change their minds… Welcome to the process of domestic infant adoption,” writes Emily Stimpson Chapman.
In Texas, the process is that adoptive parents must first be open to becoming foster parents before they are even considered worthy enough to adopt.
Many women cannot handle this heart-wrenching thought of loving a child and giving them up if it does not work out.
In America, most of the adoptions are for the children that have been abused or the parents are incarcerated, yet we abort millions of babies that can find loving homes.
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