Police Officer Jesse Whitten and wife Ashley, former Save the Storks team members, share their personal testimony of connecting with a homeless woman and later adopting her baby. Harlow Whitten has a safe place to call home because of her new parents. Jesse and Ashley Whitten adopted their six-month-old daughter after befriending Harlow’s biological mother…
Is adoption really an alternative to abortion? This question used to be easier for me to answer. I thought it was fairly cut and dry – one ends in life, the other in death, and the only other difference was roughly nine months. But then I became a mom. I realized that pregnancy and childbirth…
For seven years my parents tried to have a child both naturally and then through adoption. Seven years of excruciating medical treatments, mountains of paperwork, and indescribable loss. Then, miraculously, when my cousin, who is a few months older than me was born, the nurse in his hospital room told my parents that she knew…
According to the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI), in the U.S. alone 397,122 children are living without permanent families. Around the world there are an estimated 153 million orphans looking for a home. With an abortion happening every 30 seconds, it’s important we talk about adoption as a viable option for women in unplanned…
For our family, this Christmas season will be our most memorable. It is our first Christmas as a family of three. Our home is overflowing with love, magic, and new beginnings. This year we get to celebrate Christmas with our son. We spent hours Christmas shopping (and lets be honest, baby B is not even…
I have always known in my heart that I was meant to have children through adoption. I loved everything baby from the time I was a baby and nurturing has always been my love language. It didn’t matter if it was a neighbor’s baby who I babysat for, an orphaned lamb who needed me to…
The pieces of our adoption story started falling into place long before we officially made the decision to pursue adoption. We moved, changed jobs, received promotions, and met new people. All of these things happened because God knew where we needed to be in order to adopt. He knew the path our lives needed to…
The pro-life community often receives criticism from pro-choicers for only being “pro-birth” or, in other words, only caring about lives in the womb and not the lives of those who are born into difficult circumstances. But it’s incredible stories like this that are proving that claim to be untrue. When Albequerque police officer Ryan Holets…
Live Action News — Modern adoption is still burdened with stigmas and adoption myths are all too prevalent. I’d like to expose some of those stigmas, and hopefully, inform those who are considering adopting, as well as those who are weighing the decision about whether to place their precious children with adoptive families. Here are three…
It’s been a little over a year since Genesis Media Solutions posted Matt and Katie’s moving adoption story. It’s been passed around the internet ever since and collectively has over five millions views. This couple’s beautiful story has been an inspiration to many. SHARE ON FACEBOOK! Adoption is an emotional process for everyone involved. This story…
Part trucker. Part baby rescuer. That’s how I fancy myself—an unfettered hombre on the open road, hauling a whole heap of culture of life from one town to the next, en route to a destiny of hope. Over the last seven months I have driven well over 10,000 miles across 19 states showing Storks mobile…
Live Action News — The New York Times shared a video earlier this month of “Modern Love: Lost and Found,” viewed thousands of times on its Facebook page. The Times’ Facebook status update simply reads, “A 17-year-old girl, put up for adoption at birth, finds her biological mother on Facebook.” But the while story is,…
She was 19 years old. Her whole life ahead of her. She was dating the love of her life. She met him at a Christmas party and says she couldn’t resist when he asked her out. They spent every moment together and became very close in a very short amount of time. Everywhere they went…
It would be easy to mistake this family’s home for a gathering of the United Nations. That’s because they represent four different continents all under one roof! While many families choose to adopt, this family is unique in that they’ve chosen to adopt children with special needs from around the world. And they’ve invited us…
It would be easy to mistake this family’s home for a gathering of the United Nations. That’s because they represent four different continents all under one roof! While many families choose to adopt, this family is unique in that they’ve chosen to adopt children with special needs from around the world. And they’ve invited us…
This week we learned of a new tax plan being put forth in Washington by the majority party. There will be a host of stories written discussing the ins and outs and the pros and cons. I have strong opinions when it comes to taxes, but I do not desire, with my musings today, to…
According to the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI), in the U.S. alone 397,122 children are living without permanent families. Around the world there are an estimated 153 million orphans looking for a home. With an abortion happening every 30 seconds, it’s important we talk about adoption as a viable option for women in unplanned…
According to the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI), in the U.S. alone 397,122 children are living without permanent families. Around the world there are an estimated 153 million orphans looking for a home. With an abortion happening every 30 seconds, it’s important we talk about adoption as a viable option for women in unplanned…
Last month on the Fox gameshow, “Beat Shazam,” host Jamie Foxx had an emotional moment as he reflected on the impact adoption has had on his life. Contestants Donna and Avery were on the show hoping to win money to put in a college fund for Donna’s daughters who were adopted from Haiti following the…
I woke up one Sunday morning in June of 2016. It seemed just like any other day. Our four-year-old son and I were eating breakfast when my husband arrived home from an overnight shift at work. He quickly went into the office to print something out. I wondered what was so important. I would soon…