‘Adoption doesn’t just fall out of the sky,” Jaymie Stuart Wolfe writes in Adoption: Room for One More? “Every action that is taken flows from extended reflection and discernment,” she adds. Wolfe, herself an adoptive mother, calls adoption “deeply spiritual.” She wrote Adoption: Room for One More? “to encourage those who, like our family, are finding themselves walking a rather dimly lit road paved with many choices and few guideposts.” The book is meant to encourage those who feel called to adoption. “For, while almost all adoptive families consider themselves blessed,” Wolfe writes, “adopting a child is not right or appropriate for every family ...

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The Call to Adoption

Kathryn Jean Lopez

‘Adoption doesn’t just fall out of the sky,” Jaymie Stuart Wolfe writes in Adoption: Room for One More? “Every action that is taken flows from extended reflection and discernment,” she adds. Wolfe, herself an adoptive mother, calls adoption “deeply spiritual.” She wrote Adoption: Room for One More? “to encourage those...

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