My observation is that in American Christianity there is the idea that adoption is a means to have children rather than to fulfill our obligation to minister to the orphan. Adoption is sadly looked at as Plan C or Plan B, rather than Plan A. Plan A: have biological children. Plan B: use infertility drugs. Plan C: adopt.
That is a wonderful thought. We have turned a Gospel imperative into an American way of fulfilling our own desires. Adoption is something many of us consider when other means of having kids fails but the call to care for orphans is not an afterthought but a ministry of mercy to the helpless. There is nothing wrong with a couple adopting who cannot have children of their own but there is something wrong with families seeing adoption as a means to fulfill their own desires.
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