Welcome to our section celebrating Adoption Love! Explore stories and videos from adoptees, adoptive families, and birth families, and understand the importance of the Adoption Triad – the three key players involved in every adoption.
Understanding the Adoption Triad
The Adoption triad highlights how adoption involves the interconnectedness of three main parties: the child, the birth family, and the adoptive family. These three parties will forever be linked through the love of a child. The adopted child will always be connected in some capacity to his or her birth family who shares the same genetics, certain characteristics, cultural heritage, and more. The child will also be forever connected with his adoptive family who will be the “forever family” raising him. As there is always an interplay between nature and nurture, the child will usually share characteristics of both his birth family and his adoptive family. Through the child, the birth family and the adoptive family will also be inextricably linked one to another as they have become united by the gift of this child.
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There are so many questions that I get as an older adoptee. “So, you remember everything?” “Wow, what was that […]
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I was adopted as an infant. The people who reared me are my parents. So are the people who caused […]
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Four years into my marriage and a year into our adoption journey, I sustained a back and neck injury that […]
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After struggling two years with infertility, Emily and Christopher asked themselves this question. What did they want more: to be pregnant or to be parents? Their answer led the couple to adopt three babies in 2 1/2 years.
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Today we welcome new contributor Gabriela, who writes about adopting a special needs baby.
Asked to consider writing a reflection on […]
Considering Adoption?
Have you wondered if God might be calling you to open your heart to foster or adopt a child? Register for our virtual “retreat” and receive a code for free access to our “Be Not Afraid” discernment video series. In this self-paced series, you will hear beautiful testimonials from couples who have answered the call to foster and adopt. Talks address fostering & adopting after infertility, adopting a child with special needs, international & domestic adoption, adoption from foster care, grieving when foster children leave, adopting older children, what to do when only one spouse feels called, and more. Register today!
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Springs of Love contributor Gabriela shares her experience meeting her daughter’s birth mother in their open adoption. See more content […]
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Birth Mom Love
Share the Birth Mom Love! Peruse our featured video and stories about birth moms, from both birth moms and adoptive moms.
Featured Video: God Plays A Long Game
Kate Stapleton, a harpist, was 21 when she faced an unplanned pregnancy and chose to place her child in an open adoption. Her daughter, now grown, recently graduated from Franciscan University. Together, they share their story.
