Adoption Letter Informational and Persuasive

Adoption Letter

Informational And Persuasive Essay

To the ABC Adoption Agency:

Bringing a child into the home is a blessing but also a weighty decision. Having children can change a couple's life forever. More than five years ago, my friend Bernard and his wife Lisa made the careful and deliberate decision that they were ready to accept that blessing into their home. They were financially stable, and were at a point in their careers where they could afford to take some time off to devote precious hours to seeing their new, young charge grow up. Lisa is a schoolteacher, and planned to coordinate her maternity leave with her added freedom during the summer, to be with the new baby as much as possible. Unfortunately, many rounds of fertility treatment later, it gradually became clear that the couple could not conceive.

This revelation was heartbreaking and devastating to the young couple. But undaunted, Bernard and Lisa decided that they wanted to adopt: they wanted to welcome a baby into their household; they did not need to be the birth parents to love a child. Lisa's dream was to become a mother. She loved children -- that was why she had decided to teach the third grade. She had also baby-sat for many of her friends who already had children and had come from a big family. She knew the stresses of taking care of a new child, and was familiar with the sleepless routine of parenting a newborn. Yet everyone always marveled how Lisa had 'a way with babies.'

Lisa already has the nursery designed in her mind, the toys she will place on its shelves, and the perfect enrichment activities for the new baby to keep it amused and stimulated. Bernard comes from a large family, just like his wife, and already knows how to diaper and feed babies, not just from his own experience as an older brother, but also recently caring for his brother's children.

It seems so unfair that this loving couple would be denied their life's dream, simply because of an accident of biology. All of Bernard and Lisa's friends have followed them through this long journey of trying to conceive, then to simply have a child. No child could be more wanted or welcome -- moreover, as individuals who are experienced with children, they go into the process with open eyes as well as open arms. They know that babies are not perfect, and that being a parent is a 24-7 job from which you can never resign.

Of course, when parents make the choice to adopt a child they are taking a new human being into their home whom they must get to know, who may have different issues or challenges based upon his or her personal history. But these parents see the ability to harbor the child and all of his or her unique gifts as a blessing, regardless of the race, ethnicity, gender, or previous or present circumstances of the child. They simply want to be the opportunity to be parents, the same opportunity as any other young and loving couple.