Is adopting because of your faith a valued reason to choose to parent a child through adoption? While I do not like to question peoples religious faith or beliefs but adding adoption to the element makes me a little uneasy.

Does an the adoptive parent adopting due to their faith look at the difficulties of parenting adopted children or do they just believe their faith will take care of things? While I am a person of faith and believe in God, I am not sure it should be the reason a person decides to adopt a child. I believe that I was adopted into the right family and the children I have adopted are all met to be. I do believe that God does have a hand in my adoption and the adoption of my children. We were not planning on adopting young children but that was what came into our lives and which was meant to be in our minds.

How would an adoptee feel to learn one day that she was adopted because of the religious faith or beliefs of the adoptive parents? To learn that you were adopted as a charity case, because the bible said so could or out of duty could be a difficult thing to deal with instead the reasoning being of love or personal desires. This in the future may cause the adoptee some damage and leaving her struggling with a lifetime of issues along with all of the other adoption issues.

Adoption is about building a family, love, parenting and the desire for a child. If a parent has these desires and her faith goes along as part of the choice to parent through adoption I do not see a problem. When adoption is based on ones’ faith or beliefs for their choice to adopt, is this best for the adopted child? Should potential adoptive parents be allowed to adopt a child solely for this reason?

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