Adoption Joys 2: Dads Make A Difference
By Doris Howe
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Doris Howe is a missionary with Youth with A Mission. Her mission field is in Tyler, Texas at Loving Alternative Adoption Agency. She has been an adoption caseworker for over 24 years. Her main task is to minister to young women who find themselves in an unplanned pregnancy. She is to love them, educate t
Doris Howe
Doris Howe is a missionary with Youth with A Mission. Her mission field is in Tyler, Texas at Loving Alternative Adoption Agency. She has been an adoption caseworker for over 24 years. Her main task is to minister to young women who find themselves in an unplanned pregnancy. She is to love them, educate them, and pray with them. God's ultimate call for Doris is to introduce these young women to Jesus Christ who is there to help change their lives. An adoption may or may not be part of that relationship. Doris has two books published. One is called Adoption Joys they expected a miracle. The other is a family book called The Shaws Multiplied.
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Adoption Joys 2 - Doris Howe
Copyright 2023 by Doris Howe
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Contents
THE ASSIGNMENT GETTING READY
THEY ALL GOT INTO IT
TWO-PARENT HOME BENEFITS
TOGETHERNESS
HISPANIC MIX
PARENTING PARTNERSHIP
A MODERN-DAY PIED PIPER
NO LONGER ORPHANS
CHILDREN TELL THEIR STORIES
A LOVING ALTERNATIVE
BONDING EXPERIENCES WITH MY DAD
SECURITY VS. REJECTION
MOM’S STORIES
TWO PARENTS GIVE POSITIVE EXAMPLES TO FOLLOW
TOGETHERNESS
A STRONG DAD MAKES STRONG KIDS/ADULTS
DADS PLUS DAUGHTERS EQUALS BEAUTY
SURPRISE! TWIN BABY GIRLS
MOM IS HALF THE TEAM
DAD BRINGS COHERENCY
SERVICE IS THIS FAMILY’S MIDDLE NAME
ADOPTED BY THE COMMUNITY
IT’S ALL ABOUT FAITH
EXPLORING SUMMER
HEAVENLY FATHER HELPS DAD
LOVE BECAUSE OF AND IN SPITE OF DIFFERENCES
DAD’S WORDS
UNEXPECTED LIFE LESSONS
ROLE MODEL FOR PARENTING
AN ONLY CHILD
PARENTING STARTS AT BIRTH, BUT NEVER ENDS
A HANDS-ON DAD
SECURE WITH DAD AND MOM
AS THE KIDS GROW, THE PARENTS GROW
BEING DAD IS A PRIVILEGE
WE ACCENTUATE THE POSITIVE
APPENDIX
LEGACY OF AN ADOPTED CHILD
ABBA
ABBA, FATHER!
THE CRY OF A FATHER’S HEART FROM GENESIS TO REVELATION… FATHER’S LOVE LETTER
THE ASSIGNMENT GETTING READY
God is concerned about fatherlessness that it is sweeping the culture in this country. Weekly confirmations come to my attention that a change is on the heart of God. Recently, information from a behavior workshop from the National Fatherhood Institute offers a 24-7 workshop containing twelve key behaviors centered on helping dads become all that title is in God’s orig inal plan.
The organization/ministry Promise Keepers is being resurrected also.
The book What a Son Needs from His Dad by Michael O’Donnell drew my attention in the Christian bookstore recently. It is another sign
that this issue is on God’s heart.
A few years ago, the Kendrick brothers made a movie called Courageous. Randy Alcorn wrote a novel based on the movie by the same name. The movie and the book show how a small group of men sharpened their role as Dad after some very traumatic experiences in their lives that showed them where they were deficient as dads. I highly recommend that movie as well as the book.
The numbers of unplanned pregnancies indicate that abstinence has not taken over. Yet adoptions as a choice are down. Many of the young women in this situation grew up without a dad’s love and influence. She hasn’t known the benefits of a dad in her life. She may feel her situation is normal. She therefore doesn’t see a need to provide a dad for her child.
Some men reside in the home, but are really absent emotionally and spiritually. The dad influence isn’t present. God’s definition of family is a mom and a dad who are in partnership. They are there physically, emotionally, spiritually, and lovingly.
Webster’s Dictionary defines an orphan as a child without parents. However, a deeper look in Strong’s Concordance goes back to the original Hebrew and/or Greek meaning of the word orphan. There, an orphan is defined as a child without a father. This is an explanation for the passion God has concerning the fatherlessness sweeping this country.
God gave me this assignment to put together a book of true stories that tell of the positives that have happened in children’s lives because they had a mom and a dad. The assignment from God is solely for the purpose of emphasizing positive results for children who have had both a mom and a dad in their growing-up years. The book is not to shame anyone who didn’t have a set of two parents or is a single mom through no fault of her own. It is just to tell situations that were done God’s way. It is not to say that everything in these families was always positive without negatives. However, when they began to write the positives, they learned that the positives far outweighed the negatives. They were encouraged. I know these stories will be an encouragement to you as well.
Research shows that there are many benefits for a child if he/she has a father figure present in his/her life. Affectionate and supportive fathers greatly affect a child’s social and cognitive behavior for the better. Children tend to have a higher self-esteem, learn better, and are less prone to depression or anxiety if they have an active father in their home and lives. Kids who grow up with an engaged father are less likely to drop out of school or end up in jail. Children growing up without a father are more likely to act aggressively or have deviant behavior. If a young child has no dad in the family, he/she may always wonder, Am I pleasing to Mommy?
He/She may wonder why there is no dad for them to be pleasing to. That child will grow up emotionally warped if he does not have the security and assurance of his parents’ love and acceptance.
I’ve seen loved adopted children be secure in their father’s love. They are able to say no to all kinds of temptations. This is because that vacuum in their lives is already filled. They don’t have to do things to win the approval of their friends when they have found absolutely security, identity, and approval in their parents’ love for them and, most of all, in their heavenly Father’s love for them.
This book is an assignment that God has given me. It is His passion to bring this culture back to His original plan. He has also put His passion in my spirit. Our culture has been headed to fatherlessness over the last several years. God wants His original family plan to be involved in His original design for families with purpose and passion.
When God first gave the assignment to me, I felt like Moses. God, you’ve chosen the wrong person.
Then I realized God does not call the qualified.
He qualifies the called.
With the Holy Spirit’s constant help and the help of several families with moms and dads, I’ve developed the passion to carry on.
Where have all the dads gone? Is this a question that you’ve wanted to ask recently? This book seeks to show where some of the very successful dads are. They are a part of very successful families who have stepped forward to adopt a child or children. The stories here are true. We’ve changed some names to promote privacy. The mom’s job is to nurture the children. She’s pretty good at that. However, a child needs more than nurturing. Those children need what only a dad can bring. He is the priest in the home, the provider, the protector, and often the playmate. It is not in the female’s temperament to do the jobs of a dad. Guess what. The child suffers.
Way back in the book of Genesis, God created a family. Remember it started with a dad and a mom. Even then, God said, It is not good for man to be alone.
That can also be stated, It is not good for woman to be alone.
He made the two for each other. He said, Two are better than one. If one falls, the other can help him up.
Years ago, a