November 03, 2013
Adoption News Round-up
Here’s a look at some of the interesting adoption links that cropped up over the weekend…
D.C. Churches are taking Adoption Month by storm with their initiative, “Foster the City.” Over 400 people attended on Saturday, as D.C. partnered with local churches to help spread adoption awareness and to teach people how better to take care of children in need. So many foster families are working against a huge lack of resources, and Foster the City is fighting very hard to change that. “Part of DC127’s goal is to help broaden church and community mindsets about how to care for children in need. Churches, says Geyer, can do more than just pray and offer support of meals and babysitting when a new foster child enters a home. Foster families need better access to legal resources. They need consistent “respite families,” peers who are licensed to care for their foster children when they need a break. Churches are uniquely poised to partner with agencies who are already focusing on these issues, so that families can get stronger support from their communities.”
Read more: Foster the City: A Church Movement to Give Every Child a Home | TIME.com http://nation.time.com/2013/11/03/foster-the-city-a-church-movement-to-give-every-child-a-home/#ixzz2jcWqbKFQ
Absolutely loving this new series on The Huffington Post: “Huffington Post Gay Voices and RaiseAChild.US are collaborating in an 10-part “Let Love Define Family” series for November’s National Adoption Month. Each series installment will introduce you to another aspect of fostering and adoption. Together we will meet foster youth, hear from culturally competent foster and adoption agency leaders, chat with cast members from the ABC Family television series “The Fosters,” and celebrate LGBT parents and the successful and healthy families they create across the United States.” Click here to read the first story in the series.
Apparently, 1 in 4 individuals believes that being over 40 presents a barrier to adopting…did you, too, believe this myth?
Another factor that isn’t a barrier to adoption…being single! Single man Matthew thought that he wouldn’t be able to adopt. Meet: 44 year-old Matthew, and his two twin boys, James and Tom. This story affirms so much.
On November 7, the Today Show will be finalizing adoptions live! What an incredible day that will be for those families…this is one for the DVR, folks!
Adoptive mom Carrie Goldman authors an incredible ChicagoNow blog called Portrait of An Adoption, where she shares stories and thoughts about her adoption process with beautiful poignancy and candid honesty. In this post, she shares the process that took her and her husband weeks upon weeks to be able to finalize their baby. Her descriptions of fear and uncertainty are palpable, and the bravery that everyone involved shows is truly remarkable.