Domestic Adoption Support Group
Adult Adoptee to Present
Monday, Nov. 29th
Vine Community Church
4373 Wade Hampton Blvd.
Taylors, SC
7:00 p.m.

Domestic Adoption: Post- Monthly Adoption Discussion Group October 25, 2010 7:00 p.m.  and every 4th Monday of the Month The Vine Community Group 4373 Wade Hampton Blvd. Taylors, SC 29687 For more information contact Laura Beauvais-Godwin at laura@nightlight.org Those who adopt domestically may feel that for the most part their children are happy and well-adjusted, [...]

We are very pleased to announce that a new youth group curriculum, “Adopt: The Option,” promoting adoption within teen peer groups is now available for Youth Directors nationwide.

Focus on the Family president Jim Daly talks about his experience as an orphan and why the church should be engaged in orphan care.

My husband and I are the proud parents of five children: one birth son and four who we adopted. Would I adopt children that were born drug addicted, mentally challenged, children with ADHD and Fetal Alcohol Disorder? And, knowing what I know now, I say yes.

The Blind Side, the story of NFL Rookie of the Year Michael Oher, depicts the the impact of a loving (adoptive) family. Read more at World Magazine, and check the official movie website for trailers, etc.

Prospective adoptive families who have been screened use words and photos to give expectant mothers considering placement a glimpse into their lives. These profiles are posted online.

A young, single woman (under 20-years-old) is relocating to South Carolina, most likely in March, with plans to place her baby for adoption when the baby is born in early July.

Tomorrow, Feb. 5, at 9 pm (EST), Carolina Hope is offering a live online adoption education course about openness in adoption. Here’s the write-up from the course page: We often hear that families who are considering a domestic adoption are afraid of an “open” adoption. In this 1-and-a-half-hour course, you will learn what an open [...]

We are working with a young African American woman who is in the process of relocating to SC, and she would like to place her baby for adoption. Her due date is in June, and she is not sure the sex of the baby she is having.

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.

Over at Focus on the Family’s Boundless Webzine, Kimberly Eddy has written an article called “Looking for My Birthmother.” Here’s an excerpt: Many people are under the erroneous assumption that an adoptee’s desire to search for their biological family is rooted in some sort of ingratitude towards the sacrifices their adoptive parents have made for [...]

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.

Tree, gifts, spiral ham and sparkling cider – we are not talking about gross excess here, but the simple things that are a traditional part of our culture. It’s the question of spending money that does not absolutely have to be spent while we are facing the inevitable reality of significant bills related to adoption.

Laura and Sarah discuss the possibility of Sarah’s someday meeting the daughter she placed for adoption.