It's been a while, but I just realized today is Wednesday! As always, do your own due diligence re agency, country, child's case, etc...
Jonah-Adorable 2 year old boy in China. Developmentally seems to be on target but is living with hydrocephaleous and brain dysplasia
En-18 month old boy in China who is post-op from heart disease.
Chen-7 month old boy in China living with cleft lip, cleft palate, and heart disease
Pei-18 month old girl living with club feet and spinal cord issues
American World Adoptions has several older children (including a newly listed 7 year old boy)
Brothers 5, 3, and 2 in California living with "mild FAS and mild Cerebral Palsy"-how fun would they be?
The thought that there are children waiting for families and families waiting for children, both stuck in limbo, both waiting, is one of the most heartbreaking travesties of international adoption for me.
If you are waiting to adopt, please consider a waiting child!
I know that many people feel called to internationally adopt a healthy, infant girl but please examine your heart and your calling. Consider these children waiting for families. They are ready. They are real. They need a family!
No waiting for referral, no waiting for "paper readiness", no knowing that hundreds of other families also wanted to adopt your child and would eagerly parent the next child matching those parameters...adopting a waiting child has some wonderful "process-related" benefits, in addition to the immeasurable joy of becoming parents to a precious child.
Could one of the children posted about here, or the thousands of other waiting children internationally and in foster care, be yours?
Oh, and these incredible sisters have a family who is considering if they might be their family. Please pray that it would all work out (or if maybe you are their family).
Jonah-Adorable 2 year old boy in China. Developmentally seems to be on target but is living with hydrocephaleous and brain dysplasia
En-18 month old boy in China who is post-op from heart disease.
Chen-7 month old boy in China living with cleft lip, cleft palate, and heart disease
Pei-18 month old girl living with club feet and spinal cord issues
American World Adoptions has several older children (including a newly listed 7 year old boy)
Brothers 5, 3, and 2 in California living with "mild FAS and mild Cerebral Palsy"-how fun would they be?
The thought that there are children waiting for families and families waiting for children, both stuck in limbo, both waiting, is one of the most heartbreaking travesties of international adoption for me.
If you are waiting to adopt, please consider a waiting child!
I know that many people feel called to internationally adopt a healthy, infant girl but please examine your heart and your calling. Consider these children waiting for families. They are ready. They are real. They need a family!
No waiting for referral, no waiting for "paper readiness", no knowing that hundreds of other families also wanted to adopt your child and would eagerly parent the next child matching those parameters...adopting a waiting child has some wonderful "process-related" benefits, in addition to the immeasurable joy of becoming parents to a precious child.
Could one of the children posted about here, or the thousands of other waiting children internationally and in foster care, be yours?
Oh, and these incredible sisters have a family who is considering if they might be their family. Please pray that it would all work out (or if maybe you are their family).
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