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“Home for the Holidays” Musical Adoption Special at 8 Tonight

Take a break from Christmas craziness and watch CBS’ 11th annual Home for the Holidays special tonight at 8 pm, 7 Central.

As Reba McIntyre (who will perform tonight) says, love is the true meaning of Christmas. Take a few minutes and get inspired. Other music performers include Mary J. Blige, Carrie Underwood, and Shakira. Songs will include both those that relate to themes of love and family as well as traditional holiday carols. The show will again be hosted by adoptee Faith Hill.

CBS says that stories of adopted children and their parents will be the main part of the show. The show also makes known the situation of some of the nearly 130,000 children who wait in the U.S. foster care system.

The show is credited with inspiring 1100 adoptions in the past decade, an average of 110 adoptions per show.

I plan to watch the show, although I will not have my younger adopted daughters watch with me. I don’t want them to feel like the adoptees had to be “put up” on display and beg for someone to take them. Actually, the show is careful to maintain confidentiality, and the segments on children who need homes are focused on their lives and interests. (I wrote here about my impressions of watching the show two years ago.)

It is necessary to put a face on the statistics so that people can begin to imagine adoption from foster care as a possibility. Often people who start out looking for a healthy infant gradually spend time with adoptive families and realize that they can parent an older child or sibling group.

Anna, a previous Families adoption blogger, wrote a blog on watching a previous Home for the Holidays show with her adopted daughter. You can read about her positive experience and opinion by clicking here.

Asked what she would like viewers to come away with after this show, emcee Hill replied,

“I pray that they leave the show knowing that it is possible for them to have a child, that these children just need love and homes.”

Please see this related blog:

The Campaign to Encourage Adoption of Teens from Foster Care

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About Pam Connell

Pam Connell is a mother of three by both birth and adoption. She has worked in education, child care, social services, ministry and journalism. She resides near Seattle with her husband Charles and their three children. Pam is currently primarily a Stay-at-Home-Mom to Patrick, age 8, who was born to her; Meg, age 6, and Regina, age 3, who are biological half-sisters adopted from Korea. She also teaches preschoolers twice a week and does some writing. Her activities include volunteer work at school, church, Cub Scouts and a local Birth to Three Early Intervention Program. Her hobbies include reading, writing, travel, camping, walking in the woods, swimming and scrapbooking. Pam is a graduate of Seattle University and Gonzaga University. Her fields of study included journalism, religious education/pastoral ministry, political science and management. She served as a writer and editor of the college weekly newspaper and has been Program Coordinator of a Family Resource Center and Family Literacy Program, Volunteer Coordinator at a church, Religion Teacher, Preschool Teacher, Youth Ministry Coordinator, Camp Counselor and Nanny. Pam is an avid reader and continuing student in the areas of education, child development, adoption and public policy. She is eager to share her experiences as a mother by birth and by international adoption, as a mother of three kids of different learning styles and personalities, as a mother of kids of different races, and most of all as a mom of three wonderful kids!