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.

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.

U.S. Rep. Bob Inglis signed on to a letter from House Republican Leader John Boehner to President Barack Obama on Wednesday, asking the President to reconsider his support of the Freedom of Choice Act. The text of the letter is reproduced here.

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 [...]

This evening at 9:30 (EST) Carolina Hope is offering a live, interactive online education course on Transracial & Transcultural Adoptions. The cost for this course is only $15. You must sign-up at least 2 hours before the course begins. Additional information on signing up and paying can be found at the Transracial & Transcultural Adoptions [...]

Together for Adoption and Carolina Hope are sponsoring an Ethiopia mission trip to serve orphans in Shashemene and Addis Ababa this summer. More information (including how to apply to be a part of the 20-person team) can be found at Together for Adoption.

So in an ironic twist, the symbolic hope of Obama’s election could easily turn into more exploitation of the poor and less freedom for everyone — especially the most vulnerable.

Even if it’s a little late for this: Happy New Year from the (sometimes crazy) staff of Carolina Hope Christian Adoption Agency! This photo, taken around Christmas-time, features (left-to-right) Susan, Lisa, Janet, Anna, Michelle, Laura T., Laura G., and Erika. Do you see why I moved to Texas?

Soon after we started this blog, Dan asked me to have a way for people to receive new posts by email. For about a year we had that functionality, but then the plugin that powered the emails starting having problems. Well, we got a new plugin, and you can once again subscribe to receive posts [...]

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.

Over the course of the next week, you can attend educational workshops on the following adoption topics — all from the comfort of your home: Openness in Adoption (Monday, January 12 at 9 pm) Domesticating an International Adoption in SC (Tuesday, January 13, 8:30 pm) Transracial & Transcultural Adoptions (Wednesday, January 14 at 9 pm) [...]

My husband and I have been adopting transracially for 9 years and have almost forgotten that our large multi-racial family is still an anomaly in the United States. On Christmas Day, our local paper ran an interview and published an internet slideshow about who we are and how we are living. I was amazed at [...]