Category: adoption

Teen With Facial Difference Almost Ages Out of Adoption, Until Adoptive Mom Arrives to Bring Her Home

A teenage girl, abused and abandoned as a child, almost aged out of adoption in India before a forever family arrived in the nick of time. From her new home in Maryland, the United States, the teen penned a heartfelt essay about her life-changing adoption experience, and the piece went viral. Sony was formally adopted…


Woman Adopted Abandoned Baby With 3 Percent of Brain, Giving Her a Home While She Lived

After taking on a 10-day abandoned baby girl with a disease that left her with only 3 percent of her brain, missionary Addisyn López felt in her heart that there should be a place for terminally ill children to be “loved until the very end.” She thus established one at her family’s children’s home in Guatemala….


Woman Adopts a Boy She Fostered After His Biological Mom Called Him a ‘Bad Kid’

Marveling at her son’s amazing journey from a misunderstood 9-year-old to a high-achieving college freshman, a Minnesota mom regrets nothing. Except, perhaps, not saying “yes” to adoption sooner. It all began when Emily Boettcher was walking down a hallway with her daughter at Isanti Elementary School after a school conference and she stopped to listen to…