Arguing Against Adoption
August 1, 2023
I recently heard an argument against adoption, percentages of risks when one votes for life by parenting a child not born of you. You bet the farm– time, energy, money, and sanity on this child who will daily surprise you.
The statistics: greater likelihood of exposure during pregnancy to bad things. For years in foster care, greater risk of behaviors that will be hard to change. Greater surprises because their gene pool is unknown.
Two of my four children are adopted, as are three of my grandchildren. So what can I say?
Let’s let God speak. He adopted us. Each of us who claim Jesus as our Savior and God as our Creator are adopted. He took the risk. We’re exposed to this corrupt world. Our behaviors are stubborn. Our gene pool–well human.
God is for adoption.