Family

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP) -- When Richard found out his girlfriend, Jasmine, was pregnant, he was nervous — he’d been a husband and a dad before, and he didn’t feel like he’d done very well.

VALLEY MILLS, Texas (BP) – “Mom,” Matthew Boggs called to his mother Angela as she mowed the lawn. He had picked up the mail from the box at the foot of the quarter-mile driveway as he walked his two sons Elijah and Grayson from the elementary school bus stop.

HOPKINSVILLE, Ky. (BP) – Sarah Smith was married and starting a family when she began to discern her relationship with her own mother was lacking something.

If I am a helicopter parent (and I am), I didn’t get it from my own mom.

BRENTWOOD, Tenn. (BP) – More pastors are encouraging members to adopt and provide foster care at a time when adoptions have declined in the U.S.

LOGANVILLE, Ga. (BP) – There are around 12,000 foster children in Georgia alone, said Wayne Naugle, and fewer than 4,600 available homes to take them in. Those are children where neither the math nor the odds are in their favor.

CHICAGO (BP)—A Southern Baptist Convention entity and a Baptist state convention have joined other organizations in defending before a federal appeals court the rights of Wisconsin parents challenging a school system’s transgender policy.

ODESSA, Ukraine (BP) – Russia’s ongoing war on Ukraine has added more children to an initial count of 100,000 Ukrainian orphans at greater risk of abduction, sex trafficking, criminal adoption and long-term trauma, a leader in Ukrainian orphan care told Baptist Press.

GALLATIN, Tenn. (BP) – Of all the babies given for adoption that August day in 2008 in China, the 9-month-old girl given to Darla and Jason Brooks was the only one not to cry or fuss.

BRUNSWICK, Md. (BP) – When looking back on his family’s journey to adopt their 6-year-old daughter Bridget (“Brizzy”) from Ukraine in the midst of war last spring, Maryland pastor Phil Graves described the journey as “improbable.”