Adopt a Family for the Holidays?

[Anonymous]

^^ ugh, their not they're in the first paragraph. Changed my thought structure and didn't edit. Mea culpa.

[Anonymous]

You don't "adopt" a kid/family by just providing financial resources and/or volunteering. Adoption is a long, legal, complex legal process. What you are describing is charitable giving, not adoption

[Anonymous]

I think if you adopt a family, then they should be treated like family.

Include them in your holiday meals and let them stay in your house for a few days.

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Anonymous wrote:It can be very expensive - thousands of dollars. I found this out when my friend did it last year and only discovered after getting the lists and requirements from the agency. one of the requirements of the agency was that clothing items on wish lists were expected to be "quality items" and then there were a list of brands and stores and no, Walmart and Target were not on the list. Another one was electronics on wish lists had to come with certain additional accessories even if those accessories did not appear on the wish list.

If budget is a concern to you, make sure to ask questions beforehand on the expectations.

What agency is this? I find it hard to believe this is real. And one can always say no.

Yeah this is definitely fake.

I don’t know if that is fake or not but I remember reading a thread here, maybe last year, where the gift requests were very high and expensive items.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It can be very expensive - thousands of dollars. I found this out when my friend did it last year and only discovered after getting the lists and requirements from the agency. one of the requirements of the agency was that clothing items on wish lists were expected to be "quality items" and then there were a list of brands and stores and no, Walmart and Target were not on the list. Another one was electronics on wish lists had to come with certain additional accessories even if those accessories did not appear on the wish list.

If budget is a concern to you, make sure to ask questions beforehand on the expectations.

What agency is this? I find it hard to believe this is real. And one can always say no.

Yeah this is definitely fake.

I don’t know if that is fake or not but I remember reading a thread here, maybe last year, where the gift requests were very high and expensive items.

I think that was a troll.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You don't "adopt" a kid/family by just providing financial resources and/or volunteering. Adoption is a long, legal, complex legal process. What you are describing is charitable giving, not adoption

Adopt a Family is the actual name of charity programs nationwide that encourage charitable giving for specific families during the holiday season. It started with the Salvation Army. It has nothing to do with legal adoption.

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Anonymous wrote:I take my small children to volunteer at the DC Diaper Bank. Not Christmas, but it is still a need regardless of what day it is.

We donate to diaper banks and ask mom friends for donations. I agree-it's a practical item that families need at all times of the year.

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Anonymous wrote:You don't "adopt" a kid/family by just providing financial resources and/or volunteering. Adoption is a long, legal, complex legal process. What you are describing is charitable giving, not adoption

Do you also get offended when people discuss adopting a pet, or a new routine?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You don't "adopt" a kid/family by just providing financial resources and/or volunteering. Adoption is a long, legal, complex legal process. What you are describing is charitable giving, not adoption

Do you also get offended when people discuss adopting a pet, or a new routine?

Do you always feel the need to pipe up about matters that are not reflective of your lived experiences because of your fragility kicking in?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You don't "adopt" a kid/family by just providing financial resources and/or volunteering. Adoption is a long, legal, complex legal process. What you are describing is charitable giving, not adoption

Do you also get offended when people discuss adopting a pet, or a new routine?

Do you always feel the need to pipe up about matters that are not reflective of your lived experiences because of your fragility kicking in?

What does this sentence even mean?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You don't "adopt" a kid/family by just providing financial resources and/or volunteering. Adoption is a long, legal, complex legal process. What you are describing is charitable giving, not adoption

Do you also get offended when people discuss adopting a pet, or a new routine?

Do you always feel the need to pipe up about matters that are not reflective of your lived experiences because of your fragility kicking in?

"Adoption" does not have a sole definition of becoming the legal parent of somebody else. One can adopt an animal, an amendment, a policy, a belief, a practice, a mentor, or even, yes, a family/child as the recipient of your holiday gifts. You are going to spend a lot of energy fighting back against the word's use in this manner, if it's a hill you choose to die on, so to speak. And that's not meant to offend anyone who has actually died on a hill.

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Anonymous wrote:McLean presbyterian sponsors special needs orphans ( or children at-risk of abandonment) in Romania each November. You get a Christmas ornament so you can pray for the child each year. What I love about Romanian Christian Enterprise is that the team takes photos of the children opening the gifts. You get a letter in February or March. I think it’s a great way to teach kids about empathy.

You know what would be more helpful. Adopting these kids or ones hard to place in the US. We have so many US kids with SN lingering in foster care till they are 18 with no family and yet, funny thing, no one wants to do more than a token donation to make themselves feel like they are doing so much. (yes we adopted a SN child). That is not teaching empathy. Empathy is far more.

Yes, PP. The adoption agencies are dying for parents to contact them saying, "Hi, I want to adopt a special needs child to teach my biological 4 year old about empathy."

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Anonymous wrote:Gee, if only the google worked

https://ebfsc.org/what-you-can-do/adopt-a-family/

http://www.operationwearehere.com/AdoptMilitaryFamily.html

https://www.stmatthewscathedral.org/outreach/adopt-a-family

https://hruth.org/ways-to-give/adopt-a-family/

Or is there some kind of specific family yiure looking for, OP?

I just clicked on the House of Ruth website. They explicitly state that you can expect to spend from $100-$150 PER FAMILY MEMBER if you choose to Adopt a Family. Each family is 1+ members.
So, yes, now this can get expensive.

[Anonymous]

I don't think that is excessive. For a teenager, that's a coat, a pair of shoes, a small gift card, maybe a sweatshirt or socks/underwear and you are in the $100-150 range.

[Anonymous]

My kid is in a title 1 school. I send him in with a small stack of grocery cards to the store in the neighborhood. They are in an envelope with the guidance counselors name. His teacher passes them along and the GC distributes.