Do you believe churches should be involved with adoption agencies?

Question

If so do you feel they should be sued for wrongful adoptions?

Answer 1

Yes and no.  Sorry to waffle.  This is a difficult question to answer.  When I consider the issue of adoption, I look to see whether the child's interests are served.

On one hand, I'd say religious organizations should not be involved because, many enter adoption with certain agendas, e.g., many protestant organizations consider it a form of mission work, trying to bring more people within the confines of their faith.  Since such agendas are not focused on the child, their role is improper in my opinion.

Yet on the other hand, there is a extensive history of religious organizations helping foundlings.  The story of the New York Foundling Hospital is amazing.  Not only did it save generations of children who would otherwise have been abandoned to the streets, it in many ways, invented modern pediatrics.  

If a organization - religious or not - is focused on the child's best interest, than it has a place in the caring of foundlings and orphans.

Answer 2

No I do not.  churches are too biased.  There is Christian organization called Bethany Adoptions which is not a church , but is a religious based adoption agency.  here's my problem with Bethany and it illustrates why I think churches should not be invloved:  you have to be a Christian to adopt from them.  But they are one of the only agencies that works in Albania and Kosovo, where almost all the children are Muslim.  So how the heck is that right?  Take a kid who was raised as a Muslim, and forcibly exclude that child from being adopted by parents who are of the same religion as he or she is??  Their practice would also exclude most ethnic Albanians who've relocated to the US to adopt from their own country, when obviously a person who speaks that child's language, and knows their culture and religion would be an ideal parent in that situation.

Answer 3

The church has no reason to be involved in an adoption procedure unless you want someone in the church to give you a good reference like we did with our DRE (Director Of Religious Education) We're very much involved and I even teach Kindergarten Catechism.

Unless you go through the church or  Catholic Charities then they have the right to be involved in the adoption.

Answer 4

Yes. If someone is in a crisis pregnancy they will seek someone they are comfortable confiding in. Including leaders of their church. Most pastors would probably help make adoption plans over abortion, if the pastor was unable to help then yes they should refer the mom-to-be to an adoption agency to help with counseling and parenting/adoption planning.

Answer 5

no.

separate church and state.

Answer 6

No, I do not.  Churches should ENCOURAGE moms to keep their children above all else.  That is the moral and Christian thing to do.  That's not what they do, however.  A young woman is forfeit in order for them to keep their wealthier patrons and to do that, must provide healthy babies for them to adopt.  In turn, those wealthier patrons will raise the child in that faith, thus keeping the coffers flowing.  That young woman went to their church for help and instead, two (mother and child and sometimes the father as well) are exploited.

Answer 7

YES

Answer 8

No because there would be too much pressure for a woman to give up her child.

Answer 9

Nope.

The religious views of the churches can leak over the adoption agencies, creating pressure towards relinquishment, discriminatory practices against g*y and single people, and on and on.

Ideally I think all adoptions should have to go through the government (after a SERIOUS overhaul in how the government operates).

Answer 10

h**l NO -  Satan is the father of lies, seems it would be His Department.

It is a "conflict of interests" for churches to be involved in the destruction and separation of family.

Answer 11

No.

Their opinion could be biased - and women faced with crisis pregnancies need unbiased views - showing them ALL options that are available to them. Allowing them to make an educated decision about their own future.

Adoption agencies - whether run by the church - or not - are big business in the US now - so most agencies - sadly - look after their own interests - not the interests of the mother and the child.

If anyone feels that an agency has acted unethically - I certainly agree with taking legal action.

Answer 12

I  see no problem if they do things right. I realize your speaking of your son’s situation and yes I believe that if a church is involved in a wrongdoing in the adoption that they should be sued.

Answer 13

YES!  God commands for us (Christians) to take care of the orphans!  I'm not exactly sure what you are really asking in your question...are you asking if churches should be involved or are you asking if there should be Christian adoption agencies?

There are churches who feel convicted about God's command to take care of the orphans and have financially and emotionally supported up to 20 families within their congregation at a time to adopt a child from an agency.  Also, these adoption agencies and Christian pregnancy resource centers, again, are commanded by God to uphold and protect the sanctity of life, that's the foundational reason these Christian organizations were started in the first place, and therefore believe that a woman who finds herself with an unplanned pregnancy should be shown other alternatives to abortion.  

As a side note, if a first mother does not want a child, that does not giver her the right to terminate the life and future of her unborn.  It's only 9 months of her life and then she can give the child up for adoption.  

If you are reading this and have had an abortion, God loves you...