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Interviews from Summit VII Air this Week on Family Life Today
The unforgettable interviews done live on stage by Dennis Rainey and Bob Lepine at Summit VII are being aired on Family Life this week! The interviewed with Carolyn Twietmeyer ran...
CT: Piper on Racism
An article in this month’s Christianity Today continues in the vein of a recent blog post here on “Race and Adoption” and last month’s Alliance webinar on “Transracial Adoption.” The...
Oklahoma Pursues the Faith Community in Serious Foster Care Drive
It’s great to see innovative state and county governments increasingly partner with churches in caring for foster youth. Although church-state rules require clear partnership guidelines, there’s a growing recognition that...
International Adoption Trends…And Serious Efforts to Change Them
Our friends at JCICS today shared an internal report on trends in international adoption. It confirms the continued impacts of a deeply-flawed inter-country adoption system globally. From 2004 to 2010,...
Finding Families for Foster Youth Saves Government Significantly
Often, it takes hard work to prove what you know intuitively. Such efforts, however, can be vital in demonstrating in black-and-white the difference that common sense solutions can make. Such...
IRS Provides Further Guidance on Adoption Tax Credit
Although the IRS released some guidance last year on applying for the Adoption Tax Credit, many family have still faced challenges in receiving the credit. Personally, I recently went through...