I think we can definitely make a biblical case for adopting bona fide orphans. I look at the other biblical situations often touted as “evidence ” that the Bible “supports adoption” (the way late 20th and early 21st century America defines it…where an infant or child is stripped of its identity, and raised by strangers.)

Look at Moses. He “should have been grateful” to have been adopted out of slavery and into a life of privilege & education in Pharoah’s court, no less. But what happened when he recognized the truth? “Let MY PEOPLE go!,” he said.

I see many parallels among today’s adoptees…. we “should be grateful,” how do we *know* that being relinquished is the root of our ‘problem,’, finally, we cry, LET MY PEOPLE GO. We aren’t always grateful for what was done, *purportedly on our behalf.* We wish you wouldn’t ignore us, particularly in the name of Christ.

I see adoption as practiced today not as benevolent Christians who want to provide homes for children so much as infertile couples who feel that they deserve a healthy white infant, and if they have to lie and strip the identity of someone else’s, so be it.

OK. Samuel. His mother “brought him a little coat” each year. How many Carolina Hope adoptive families might be comfortable with that level of openness? Seriously.

Finally, is encouraging and enabling mothers, however pagan or heathen, and ESPECIALLY Christian women, pleasing to God? Lamentations 4:3 was written when times were much like today. Jeremiah lamented that women, nay, mothers, who purportedly followed Him weren’t mothering their own offspring.

I believe a biblical case for adoption of orphans is a given, but fail to understand how encouraging women not to mother their offspring (in favor of stripping the identity of a child for more ‘deserving’ parents) is pleasing unto Almighty God.

Sincerely,
Anne