Yesterday, a question hit my inbox. ?I started to answer it via email but realized that if one person is asking, a lot more may be wondering, so I chose to go this route instead.
I was curious I am sure there is a reason why adoption is important rather than waiting for the baby to be surrendured by the mother and placed into foster care, etc? right?
I know foster care is affordable and there are lots of kids in foster care who need a parent, that gets tricky, but can you please explain why the process of adoption described by Zoe* is important in dealing with the issue of abortion?
We are very much in favor of Christians getting involved in foster parenting. ?However, that is different than being in favor of foster care in general.
There are wonderful Christian people who are engaged in the foster system as social workers, supervisors, advocates and foster families. ?It is a vast opportunity for ministry through some of life?s most difficult times for children, and at times, beautiful adoption stories to emerge. ?I love that?but not enough to?persuade?me to use that system because it?s cheaper.
The Zoe Foundation focuses on private adoption of infants in order to keep many from entering the foster system that even those involved in will admit is horribly broken.
We do this for a number of reasons. ?Here are a few.
Private adoption, while certainly more expensive, saves the significant ?what if? factor of the foster care system. ? ?A private adoption can cost many thousands of dollars, but a child goes directly from the custody of their birth parents to their forever family. Once a child is in the custody of the state, there are more opportunities for children to get lost in the system and bounced from one marginal home to another. ?As any adult survivor of the foster care system how many families they stayed with and if they felt that was good or bad.
The foster system is not primarily an adoption system. ?It is an intervention system. ?For the foster system to engage, in 99% of the cases, something has gone very, very wrong. ?Abuse, neglect or something of the like is what triggers the state to bring a child into the system. ?While adoption can happen, those?extenuating?circumstances could have been avoided.
I have great admiration for those doing great work within the foster system, for those who adopt from it, and for those who have walked through it and on to adulthood, but it is at best a safety net that the government needed to build because the church failed. ?We certainly cannot ignore it ? and again ? we honor those involved, but long term, I believe aggressive growth of an adoption culture will take place with a private adoption model.
The church needs to step up and assure society that ?We?ve got this?? as well as tell the government that they can keep their subsidies and secular perspectives. ?Yes, let?s care for the kids already in the system, but let?s keep everyone we can from entering as well.
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