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Single Parent Adoptions

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More and more single people, especially women, are choosing to become single parents. One way for a single person to become a parent is through adoption. Adoption.com defines adoption as “a legal process that creates a new, permanent parent-child relationship where one didn’t exist before.” While many adoption agencies still deem married couples as the best candidates for adoption, many do now allow single people adopt. Domestic Adoption Domestic adoptions are adoptions that take place within the adoptive parent’s own country (in the case of this post, this is the United States). A domestic adoption typically costs between $15,000 and … Continue reading →

Our Inspiration to Adopt

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Nancy and I had known for years that we might adopt children some day. We have three birth children and would have had more had we not encountered serious health risks for Nancy in two of the three pregnancies. After the third birth, Nancy had her tubes tied. Nineteen years passed between the birth of our youngest child and the day that we received a foster child into our home. Along the way, we were inspired by couples who had adopted children. Chris and Maureen lived near us and attended the same church that we did for many years. They … Continue reading →

Gotcha Day #1

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“Gotcha Day” is the name in the adoption community for the day that the child came into the home. It corresponds to the birthday of a natural child. It is a day celebrated by many adoptive homes and a time for great rejoicing. My wife and I were with a realtor looking for a new home, a larger home to accommodate young children. My wife’s cell phone rang and it was our adoption social worker who informed us that we had a baby, a boy named Caleb. He was a month old and was being cared for in a shelter. … Continue reading →

You Can Afford to Adopt

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Five years ago, my career was going well. I was flying to Europe in Business Class every other week and staying in the finest hotels in the capitals of Europe. I was negotiating multi-million dollar sales of international businesses. I was six years away from a very comfortable retirement. But my heart was with the children in the ghettos of Houston. My company offered an early retirement package for anyone over fifty years old. There was no way that the offer made sense financially. I agreed to take the offer as soon as the sale that I was currently working … Continue reading →

How To Decide To Adopt

A lot of people seem to have adoption in the back of their mind somewhere. They think it is something that they would like to do someday, but don’t know when that day will come. When that tiny little voice inside begins to whisper “it’s time”, how do you make the decision and how do you know if adoption is right for you? Step 1: Research The first step when you begin to think about adoption should be to research adoption. I have mentioned before that our decision to adopt started with my typing “adoption” into a search engine. Take … Continue reading →

Adopting from China

Country Basics China is the largest country in Asia – it is only slightly smaller than the United States. The climate is very diverse, ranging from tropical to the south and subarctic temperatures to the north. The population of China is well over 1.3 Billion. What Are The Children Like? The children are beautiful with olive skin and beautiful almond-shaped eyes. There are children of all ages waiting for homes. There are a number of infants and toddlers and so often the older children are overlooked. Most of the children are girls, but there are also many boys who need … Continue reading →