MARN does not provide child-placement services. Traumas and exposures, which occur in utero, as well as during childhood, can have a life-long impact. Children need to grow up in families.
Adoption always begins with pain.
All children who are adopted, including those who are adopted as infants, have suffered the profound loss of at least one birth parent. A child grieves the loss of the family that gave him or her life. Adoption is an ancient and admirable practice, designed to provide the most beneficial solution for all involved. Adoption is a viable method of family-building, but the dynamics in healthy adoptive families are not identical to the dynamics in healthy birth families. Adoptive parents love their children, and are committed to parenting them and to being a truly permanent family, but love is not the only element in the equation.