Children

Introduction

INTRODUCTION: A Beautiful Choice

or an Unglamourous Option?

"I was born to

woman I never knew, and raised by

another who took in orphans. I do not know my

background, my lineage, my biological or cultural

heritage. But when I meet someone new, I treat them

with respect. For after all, they could be my people."

-- James Michener

Family. It is the closest thing to immortality this

side of the grave. Family is the past, the present and

the future. Family is for growing up in, for going away

from, for coming home to. Family is America's most

productive and efficient department of health and

human services. Real families bend but don't break in .

responding to life's challenges.

We are all a part of God's family, the best of His

creation. As the earth rotates, the lives of natural and

adoptive families are often inexorably linked. This, in

part, is also their story regarding real life and death

matters. God often moves in mysterious ways to

complete the family circle.

So, it is with deep and fond appreciation that this

book honors, among others, young women with crisis

pregnancies who, though unmarried, boldly and wisely

developed adoption plans in the name of Godly charity

and true religion. With strength of character, they

carried their babies and also preserved their own health

and self-worth. Then, by ushering the new babies