23 January 2010

Haitian Orphans and the Voyage of the Damned

To do less for orphans is to be reminded of what happens when we turn our backs on those who need our help as shown in Voyage of Damned, a movie based on the 1939 real life story of a ship carrying 937 Jews from Germany to Havana, Cuba.

19 December 2009

Year-End Newsletter from Nightlight South Carolina Office

It has been an exciting year for Nightlight Christian Adoptions of South Carolina. As you know in April of 2009 Carolina Hope was acquired by Nightlight of California.

9 September 2009

Genetic Testing: What Can It Provide for Adoptees?

Professor of Genetics Robert Moss: The idea of an adoptee having access to a detailed medical history through a DNA profile is bogus, and the ‘profiles’ being offered to predict disease and traits are pretty useless.

27 January 2009

Adoption and other secrets kept from American teenagers

For the teenage girl who has sex and gets pregnant, she has three choices: abortion, adoption, and parenting. If adoption were promoted as a positive option, unborn lives could be saved and women and children would not be entering into poverty at such alarming rates. For the sake of women and children we need to promote adoption.

27 January 2009

Are international adoption agencies part of an “Orphan Manufacturing Chain”?

Laura Godwin responds to “The Orphan Manufacturing Chain”, by E.J. Graff. Graff’s article makes untrue claims in an attempt to undermine International Adoption.

9 January 2009

Open to openness in adoption

Open to openness means that the adoptive parents should be willing to meet with the birth mother before the baby is born, be with her at the hospital, and provide her with pictures and letters after the child is placed with them.

8 December 2008

Year-end letter from the director

Laura Godwin, Carolina Hope’s Director, has written the following letter for friends and supporters of Carolina Hope:
December, 2008
Dear Carolina Hope Friends and Supporters,
Although you are all familiar with the ministry of Carolina Hope and the world of adoptions, you may not be familiar with the upheavals the adoption community has experienced this year and the [...]