In our Catholic parish we have a very nice couple who have two sons. They were also foster parents to children who needed homes during family crises. About 7 years ago they began to bring two children to church with them every Sunday. This happened for at least 15 months, when suddenly it became known that they had applied to adopt the children. The kids were about 3 and 5 when they were adopted. They are biological brother and sister and black children, very well behaved. The adoptive parents' 2 sons are blond boys, the oldest a year older than the black brother and the youngest a year younger than his new black sister. This family is very stable, and I do not think they originally intended to adopt any kids, but over the year that they were caring for these children, you could see the strong bonding which took place between the parents and these two children and the other two boys.
After the adoption was final, they had the two kids baptized. Both of these kids have now also received their First Communion. It was/is a wonderful story.
We are adoptive parents, and we adopted our boys when they were four and seven, and we adopted our daughter when she was a year old. Everyone is now 11, 7, and 2. All are Hispanic.
The reason that there aren't many healthy white babies is abortion. Sad, but true.
If every church in America had one family who adopted an older child, we would no longer have children languishing in foster care with no hope of real permanence.
Gumdrop, tell your friends I say God bless. We wish them the best.
That's great! :)