To close out National Adoption Month, I want to give you 6 reasons you should adopt a child. Adopting a child is such a big decision both for you and for your future.

A family doesn’t have to be all biological to be a family.

This is so important to remember if you’re considering adoption. Families aren’t perfect, this is a general truth, but we must strive to better ourselves.

It can allow your family to be more culturally diverse.

If you adopt from overseas, you have an opportunity to see where they’re from, where they grew up and what they were surrounded by.

Fostering with the means of adoption

Fostering children is a great way to get to understand the children you might want to adopt one day. Fostering also gives an allowance for relationship. You want your child to feel safe and secure wherever they are.

You want an older child rather than a baby.

Older children often get overlooked for prospective adoptive parents because so many parents want babies, but adopting children is just as important especially since the child also has needs to be met.

Family Expansion

You have a family and you want a bigger one.

You'll give your child a new future.

When you adopt, you’re giving your child a new future. They have a chance to be someone in a place where they feel love. You’re giving them security that they might not have otherwise had if they ended up growing up where they once were.