Jesus loves the little children... all of the children of the world.

We have been asked why international? Why not a child in the US? This question appears to be very commonly asked to families going through an international adoption. Luckily we have not had the negative attitudes directed at us to date that many of the other RR families have encountered. I decided I will quickly address this here... in case you wonder. We were not just called to adoption. We were called to adopting a child with Down Syndrome (two, actually). This is what we felt God wanted our specific family to do. Why International? In the US, prediagnosis of Down Syndrome contributes to about a 90% abortion rate for 'unwanted' pregnancies that would result in a child being born with Down Syndrome. There is also a 'waiting list' of people in the US that are willing/wanting to adopt children born in the US with Down Syndrome. However, there are so many children with Down Syndrome waiting in orphanages around the world... facing instutionalization at very young ages and early deaths due to circumstances beyond their control. Why? Because they were born with a little something extra. Down Syndrome. The diagnosis is their death sentence unless someone does step up and bring them home. Why should we overlook these children... just because they were born in another part of the world? God calls us to care for the orphans... not just to care for the orphans in America. What about our girls? Or any of the children in the buttons down the right side of the blog? Why NOT them? They are God's children too.