they all count

On August 28, 2024, China suspended its international adoption program.

As of November 1st, approximately three hundred American families who had been matched with a child in China are now separated from them indefinitely with the status of their adoptions uncertain.

We understand and lived through a similar heartache when our adoption of a young girl in Poland was unable to be completed after our facilitating agency was shut down by the U.S. State Department (for founded reasons) in December 2016.

I recently sat down with Brittany Meng of the podcast The Motherhood Metamorphosis to talk about our family's experience and loss. You can listen to the thirty minute conversation here:

I pray for every child waiting for a family that somehow, someway, somewhere, someone will intervene to allow transitions into loving, nurturing, safe arms; either within their home country or countries abroad.

All lives are valuable. All lives count.


Debbie Prather

Debbie Prather is a people-loving introvert with a weakness for powerful, redemptive tales. She pens personal essays with universal themes and is open with her experiences to make others comfortable to be open with theirs. Debbie’s faith, family, and friends inspire her words and creative works. Her passion for reading and community have led to the start of two active, long-standing book clubs. She can often be found at bible study or book club meetings or nestled in a library, bookstore, or on the floor with one of her beloved grand babies.

http://www.debbieprather.com
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