By Jeff Gammage
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
> Rosanne Cowen was at work in her Moorestown office when an e-mail arrived from her adoption agency, bearing the subject line "Baby Girl."
> Her hands shook as she opened the message: She and her husband had a new daughter - Maria Jose, a newborn living with a foster family in [...]
Tags: Adoption by Country · Guatemala Adoption
As people, we all fear abandonment. We look upon the abandonment of a child with a very deep sense of sadness.
We realize that no child should be left to grow alone. We see the infancy of a child as a crucial stage to his/her development as a human being.
Child adoption is sometimes seen as a [...]
Tags: Adoption General Information · Domestic Adoption · Orphans and Orphanages
* Who is eligible to adopt?
If you are fully committed to the decision to adopt, then you already have the most essential factor to gaining custody of a child. Moreover, if you can provide for the basic needs of a child as well as give him a nurturing environment then you may adopt. Here are [...]
Tags: Adoption Agency · Adoption Forums · Adoption General Information
In the last 20 years there has been a steady, sizable increase in the number of single-parent adoptions. Why would a successful, independent single man or woman want to give up his or her freedom and assume the responsibilities of raising a child? The desire to nurture and to share life as a family is [...]
Tags: Adoption General Information
What will we face when adoptees ask their birth parents, "Why did you put me in a gay home instead of with a heterosexual family? Was it because the gay couple paid a higher fee to an attorney or the birth mother?" Many professionals and birth parents are concerned with what the long term effects [...]