Adoptions and Orphans

The adoption triad consists of the children who are adopted, birth mothers and fathers and adoptive parents. Even if these three groups never meet together, their lives are bound to one another through adoption. The children are connected to both sets of parents, and the birth parents and adoptive parents are connected to each other [...]

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Although the decision to give up a child is always heart-wrenching, it can be a "win-win" solution to two painful problems. Adoption is a legal process that gives adoptive parents rights and aresponsibilities and the adoptive child social, legal and emotional rights as a family member.
Putting a child up for adoption allows the child?s birth [...]

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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 [...]

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Saturday, 10/13/07
By ANITA WADHWANI
For The Tennessean

When Melva Black and her fellow churchgoers first encountered the South African home for children orphaned by the AIDS/HIV epidemic, she says, she was astounded by the conditions she saw.
"There were 60 children living in a two-bedroom, one-bathroom house," Black said.
Even worse, the landlord was trying to evict the children [...]

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Adoption: Laughter and Tears
 by: Tanya Sturman
  
If you ever walk through an orphanage, it will be an experience youll never forget. Witnessing children in poverty, children discarded, children stunted both physically and emotionally, will stir your heart beyond belief. And adopting a child is a joy as great as witnessing the first sharp intake of breath [...]

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