We are also a family seeking to adopt a young daughter. We have one almost eight year old son, and due to pregnancy complications cannot attempt to birth another child. I am Wiccan, my husband and son are Buddhist. We value culture and heritage. I come from a long line of feminists and earth appreciators. We are open to adopt a girl between the ages of zero and six to join our active outdoorsy family.

The J Family

Shannon & David
sbarney512@gmail.com

We found, in our investigation, that there are some very specifically Christian agencies that require you to be Christian….and some that just want kids to go to good homes.

We found that working with a private attorney was likely better, as was finding an agency that worked with GLBTQ families (because interestingly, that filtered out the most fundamentalist agencies). We found no specifically Pagan agencies; if you’re interested in adopting from foster care they’re not allowed to discriminate (though some specific workers can be a pain).

I’m new to this site, but given the circumstances my wife and I are facing, I needed to try something.

We have been married 18 fantastic years this past Feb, but have not been able to conceive or have a child. We would desperately like to. We have gone to the respective “doctors” and they told us everything was “normal”. Still we have been unsuccessful, tho not for lack of trying! We believe that my wife may have miscarried once, but are not sure.

After a long discussion, we have decided to pursue adoption as an additional course as my wife is 50 and I am approaching that number too. The only problem is that I can’t find any pagan/wiccan/asatru adoption sites. Most are Christian based or oriented and while there has been some change in recent years towards recognition by christian religions of pagans, their dogmatic principals and in a lot of areas, outright contradiction of their own scriptures and vehemence towards anyone not of their belief makes us want to stay far, far away from those sites.

Please help! Any website recommendations or phone numbers would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for re-activating this site and good luck with it.

I’m a bit slower getting things moving here than I intended, but I’m glad you found us. You are definitely not alone.

At the moment, I’ve been trying for 10 years. We’ve had 3 early miscarriages, and I have PCOS. Daily, I find it harder and harder to keep my faith (I count myself as Wiccan). I ask myself why me, why not those around me. Why, if I’m on the ‘right path’ following the right deity, am I struck by this condition that has so damaged my sense of self, relationship with friends and family, faith and marriage? Why am I not part of this perfect representation of the goddess as a feminine nurturer and creator? How can I worship something that I feel I’ve been robbed of?

At least by reading what you’ve written, I know I’m not alone.