Do your religious beliefs influence your views or feelings about adoption.?

Question

These are really interesting answers. Thanks everyone!

Answer 1

Yes, because my Uncle Eddie was raised in an Orphanage and his story was that at the age of 4 yrs old he got into some trouble and had to go see the Headmaster---while waiting scared and worried in the office he looked upon the wall and saw a picture of Jesus holding the children and felt safe.

When he was taken into the office to speak with the Headmaster Little Eddie asked who the man was with the children and why he had so much love in his smile....

Apparently this melted the headmasters heart and instead of the spanking he had planned to give little Eddie..they spent time talking about the fact that Jesus had died for the sins of all people who believed in him--and he especially loved the children.

Little Eddie was never adopted but when he grew too old for the Orphanage he was sent out to life on his own... He met up with his big brother who had taken a path of crime... One night Eddie was told he would need to commit a robbery to prove he was a Man... Instead he joined the Navy and while in basic training fell in love with My Aunt.

Eddies brother was killed in a bloody gun fight--on the streets of Chicago... and Eddie went on to become the loving foster parent of 57 children and the father of three...as well as the Minister to Men in Folsom Prison...Men like His Brother.

It was all for that moment the fear in the heart of a tiny little boy was touched by a picture of Jesus on the wall--and the way that the Headmaster responded to the little boy who felt that power.

Eddie believed every child needed to be Loved as Christ Loved Him....that day and forever after.

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Answer 2

Nope ... just my own personal beliefs influence my opinion. Adoption is a good thing it can help a child that doesn't have but i still think children are better off with biological family.

No offense to anyone who has adopted or who was adopted.

Answer 3

good question. i was raised catholic, and since then i have renounced (informally) the catholic churches and organized religion in general. i do feel a very deep connection to God, and i truly believed for the first time at the age of 14. being told to believe something and actually feeling it yourself is completely different.

i have always taken care of others, it's part of who i am, and my mission in life. i will adopt, because i feel a strong pull to do so. i believe it's what God wants me to do with my life. i dont believe God plans to have children relinquished by their parents. i believe he plans for people to have children mostly in an attempt to redeem them. what's more redeeming than giving all you have to a helpless, innocent creature? and if they dont, he's got someone else in the world who he means to give them to. whether the child ends up where they're loved depends on a human's free will. they can choose to ignore the pull, they can choose not to do things right, and the wrong people can sneak in their and do their job for them...poorly.

maybe this doesnt make sense. it's hard to describe. it's mostly a theory ive been working on. but who knows for sure?

Answer 4

No, my experience with adoption influences my feelings.

Answer 5

It really is how you grew up really coming from a christain home I have a lot of love for my family and I beleive they just wanted to expand there family because they wanted another person well a girl and believe if it is in you to do then go and share your love with someone and call them your own because it means more becasue youa re wanted. to mea adoption is a wonderful thing but to each there own really

Answer 6

For me no they do not. For my Mother who gave me away yes it did. She was raised Catholic, Baptized a Catholic and on the adoption papers it has "Mother insists child be adopted by parents of Church of England faith"

Answer 7

not really, thats because I dont actually have a religion. My faith is my kids and everything I do that is real to touch. My beliefs come from my own experience.

Answer 8

My own personal religious beliefs do not affect my feelings about my own adoption.  No.  However, I am always heartened to discover that all the major religions of the world are COMPLETELY AGAINST coerced/forced adoptions.

Answer 9

Yes,

The hubby and I are Christian and we believe in caring for those who have no one to care for them...(regardless of whether they are children or not)  Now we did not just adopt dd because of that. But our beliefs allowed our hearts to be opened for the prospect of adoption.....I hope that makes sense.

Please let me say that we Christian do not have the market cornered on adoption.....people of many faiths choose the path of adoption.

Answer 10

no but many countries wont allow jehovahs witnesses to adopt....and some mormons also. I personally think the child comes first and if he/she is in a better place then good for it

Answer 11

Yes and no.  I have a desire to help those who need it, which is something that my religion believes in also.  My husband and I are adopting a child who needs help.

Answer 12

yep most definatly  i feel that the lord above gave me my parents    halleluya praise da lord

Answer 13

Absolutely.

Being a Christian influences every thing I do, feel, and think.

Answer 14

not really

Answer 15

no

Answer 16

no not at all, everyone deserves a home. i really don't think religious beliefs drives many peoples decision on this. i would like to think so

Answer 17

Absolutely. I have always wanted to adopt because I was adopted and my whole family has been touched by adoption, foster-care or and orphanage of some sort so it has always been my plan, however now that I am faced with infertility my faith only reconfirms my decision. I could easily spend tens of thousands of $$ on extravagant infertility treatments but it all seems so frivolous and self centered when there are so many children who need loving homes and loving parents.

Answer 18

I don't understand why it would...