PPL and Adoption

Presbyterians Pro-Life

Children need the Church's active support for adoption

(Reprinted from Presbyterians Pro-Life NEWS, Winter 1999)

There has been a lot of activity in recent years to help children who are without families. There have been efforts to facilitate adoptions and move children out of the foster care system into stable families. The Church now has the opportunity to respond. The Presbyterian Church (USA) has made a number of strong commitments on paper to adoption but has done little to actually unite needy children with families through adoption.

There are a number of children's homes associated with the PC(USA). Most of them are foster care facilities and serve an important purpose in providing what should be temporary care for children. Children eligible for adoption seldom leave the system to be adopted. Most Presbyterians are unaware of the special needs children in our institutions who are hoping for an adoptive family.

There is a world of adoptive need and a world of opportunity in our own denomination. Presbyterians could take a positive step toward helping families form through adoption simply by asking the General Assembly to make the needs known and tell us who and where the children are in our own system of Presbyterian Children's Home who are eligible. PPL is ready to help with wording for an overture.

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