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Summary: There are many reasons to adopt a child, including the inability to have biological children and the desire to provide a loving home for unwanted children. Find out why to adopt a child with tips from the parent of two adopted children in this free video on adoption.
Anne Graham is a resident of Georgetown, TX, and the proud parent of two adopted children. Over 125,000 children are adopted annually in the United States, with inter-country...read more
For many people, child adoption brings families together. Couples who cannot or choose not to have children are connected with children that do not have parents. While the process of adopting a child is a long and arduous one, filled with paperwork, visits from social workers and background checks, in the end there is a no legal difference between an adopted child and biological child. Despite the process, the benefits of giving a child a home and receiving a much-awaited baby far outweigh any negatives for most adoptive parents. In this free video series on child adoption, the parent of two adopted children explains basic adoption information. Learn why to adopt a child and the benefits of international adoption. Get information on the steps of adoption and how to explain adoption to children. Adopting a child can be an overwhelming process, but the help of someone who has gone through the process can be extremely beneficial.
"Hello, my name is Anne and I adopted two children that were born in Guatemala. The first one came home in the fall of 2001 and the second one came home in the fall of 2003. The reason why I chose to adopt my two children the shorter answer is of course I couldn't have any biologically but of course to get to that particular point I had then a whole lot of medical procedures. We tried In vitro fertilization and finally we decided that we want was a baby not necessarily biologically but just a child to love and then the process when forth that should you adopt a child from the United States or should we go international. We chose to go international for a lot of very personal reasons but mostly the agency we fell in love with All God's Child did international adoption. We were looking for an agency that treated the children as if they needed loving homes. We needed loving children and it was a match made in God sort of way and not just a here's a baby. They need a home. You need a kid, here you know. It was much more of a longer process matching making sure that the children were really going to be in loving homes and when we called them, we really wasn't sure what country we wanted to go to and they've just started the Guatemala program and the said that we got these great infants. They're coming home about six months old and I was ecstatic because of course usually international adoption you would think that a child would be at least a year if not eighteen months old and so my children were both four months old when they came home and that was perfect because I wanted as young as possible and Guatemala obviously is not very far for us as far as traveling and we were only required to stay in the country about three or four days once we picked our children up."
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