It is meant to provide an introduction to several adoption-related topics. The church today has the opportunity and responsibility to become more involved in supporting all facets of adoption.
Studies consistently show that adoption benefits all parties involved.
Local churches could counsel young women toward adoption as an alternative to either abortion or single parenthood . . . It could give its hearty endorsement to adoption as a way of prospering the lives of all concerned. Many agencies today are actively recruiting families of all races for minority and mixed-race children. Some social workers have realized that churches are a natural place to recruit adoptive families. This private and public collaboration is working to find families to adopt older minority children in foster care.