Carrie and Matthew both have a deep sense of love and commitment to family. Raising, nurturing, and helping a child to become a healthy, mature adult is a high value for them. Carrie understands there are children in the world that need the love and support of a family. She believes she has a spiritual calling to provide such a family for one or more of those children in a tangible way; through adoption. Matthew believes he and Carrie are gifted with talents and abilities that they are responsible to put into action and provide a family for a child that does not have a family.
Carrie and Matthew have talked among themselves about adoption for several years. Until recently they felt the timing was not right for them. A little more than a year
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He attended Glendale Community College for three semesters; from 1992 through 1993. He then transferred to Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff; graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in Public Relations, in the spring of 1997. After graduation Matthew worked for Insight; a computer sales company. He worked in their product management department. In September, 1998 Matthew joined the City of Tempe Fire Department as a Firefighter. Since his employment, he became a Paramedic. Currently, Matthew is a Captain for the Tempe Fire Medical Rescue Department. This is a rank is has now held for seven years. He loves his work and feels he is blessed to have this great career. He works twenty-four shifts, beginning at 8:00am. After a shift it is not uncommon that he has had little sleep. His goals are to remain with the Tempe Fire Department, and in time achieve the rank of Deputy Chief.
Matthew enjoys exercising, working out, and watching football with his family. He looks forward to coming home from work and taking his dog out for walks in the neighborhood, and playing with his children in the park. Family date nights often include trips to the theater to see a movie. He says, “Vacations are a must.” The Burns family takes an annual trip to Carlsbad, CA. with various families from the Fire Department. They camp at the beach, and enjoy a time of everyone playing together. Matthew
Sean began a second career here at CDOT-EJMT and has become a valued member of our team. His previous career was 20+ years as a Firefighter/EMT in a municipal fire department.
The moment when the brothers meet Carrie Davis, is one that leads to many triumphs. She serves not only as their job coach, but also as their friend and mentor. She teaches them about many things such as; using a telephone, knocking and waiting to be invited in, and ultimately that a good friend can get you through anything. Watching this movie in the mindset of an ELL teacher it helps me to envision what my students might face.
Adoption is a hard process. It causes a lot of stress and causes people to freak out sometimes. You might not always get what you want but you have to keep thinking positive and you have to hope that good will come out of it. Some people aren’t able to have children so it’s a hard and long process and they have to wait for a long time sometimes to maybe be able to have a child that could potentially be theirs. There are different ways to have adoptions, most people will have an open adoption because they would like it for their children to know who their parents are. In the United States only, approximately 2.5% of all children in the U.S. are adopted. Also, the state with the largest percentage of adopted children is Alaska (Eligon 27-28).
During those summer trips to Kansas, Carrie started dating some of the people she’d met at the Yoder Church. This version of finding a future spouse didn’t appeal to her though. The boys were nice enough, but she knew they weren’t the ones she wanted to spend her life with.
This letter is to recommend Tony and Kristin Woodsmall as adoptive parents. I strongly believe they would be the perfect family to invite a new little one into their lives. I have known this lovely family for about three years now and have enjoyed getting to know them on a personal level.
For many people, adoption is the only choice when it comes to having children. Once someone chooses adoption, however, there is always more than one option available. It is important when choosing adoption that each person involved is educated on the topic. There are three main types of adoption: confidential, mediated, and fully disclosed. “In up to 90% of domestic infant adoptions, adoptive parents maintain some contact with birth parents. It's considered best practice because most women want to know what happens to the child and the child wants to know family history” (Koch, 2009). Even though the adoptive parents may not create a strong bond with the child, an open adoption is better than one that is closed because children respond
She knew that there were other options of becoming a mother. There were several options to choose from such as fostering or adopting. She thought very hard before she came to a final decision. She knew that if she became a foster parent, she wouldn’t be able to raise the children and would have to give them up eventually, after creating a special bond with them, but she knew that she would also be helping these kids. On the other hand, adopting would mean that she would be able to raise them until they are ready for college or move on their own. She wouldn’t be able to help the child like she could for foster children, but she would still be able to help her child no matter how little the problem may seem. Tracey had a huge smile on her face as she admits, “It didn’t take a lot of time to think about because I decided to let my heart choose.” This time Tracey didn’t have a plan instead she just let her maternal instincts lead her to the right path. She eventually met her future husband, Bradley Fischer, at a tavern in downtown Grand Rapids. Even before they got married, both knew deep down that they wanted a family so after a few years into their marriage they decided to adopt a child from
This example of a family’s interesting dynamics that come about can be seen in a show called, “The Fosters.” In this show, the Foster family lives in San Diego where Stef Foster and Lena Adams (in later seasons being Lena Adams-Foster) parent five children, four of them being foster children and one coming from a previous marriage. The children’s names are Brandon (17yrs old), who is the oldest, Mariana (16) and Jesus (16), who are twins that were adopted after Stef and Lena got together, and Callie (17) and Jude (13) who are siblings that both got adopted. Stef is the birth mother of Brandon, coming from a previous relationship with another charater named Mike.
A terrible accident in 1999 left them without their youngest child three year old Nicole. With their four sons they desperately wanted another little girl. Although they say that they were not wanting to replace the daughter they had lost. They had been trying for 15 years to conceive
The second corner of the triangle, the adoptee, had very different affects from the adoption. Each adoptee found out a different way and had different feelings about learning they were adopted. While some adjusted and accepted the news as to never give it another thought, there are many that did not. According to The Encyclopedia of Adoption, “Most adults who were adopted as children appear to have successfully resolved any conflicts stemming from their adoption” (Adamec, C. & Miller, L. 2007, p. 30). Having been adopted and knowing many adoptees, I must
While there are those that will argue against adoption, the real argument should be; potential adoptive parents should plan sensibly and be prepared while considering all the details that will play a role in the adoption process. Forethought to all the factors is impossible; there will always be more questions, but they should not just jump in, adoption is not something you should make irrational decisions about. This is a lifelong commitment that will affect your whole family, also the life of a child. The public views adoptive children as the vulnerable party in adoption, agencies acknowledge that adoptive parents are also vulnerable. Prospective parents face stressful individual and collective role transition challenges as they anticipate forming a new adoptive family. (Farber 176) For some parents, adoption challenges mobilize problem-solving, coping resources, and adaptive resolution. For others, these challenges become stressors, overtax coping resources, and even contribute to family dissolution. (Farber 177)
Adoption is an alternative way to have a family; it is a lifetime decision that should be made very cautiously. Adoption is a process where parents are supplied for children whose biological parents are deceased, or for those children whose biological parents are unable or unwilling to provide for their care. "Adoption creates a parent-child relationship recognized for all purposes including: child support obligations, inheritance rights and custody (Aigner p 10). The children are provided for childless couples or individuals interested in becoming parents. "According to Dr. Ruth Mc. Roy at the UT School of Social work, there are approximately 5,000,000 US births each year. Out of that approximation 118,000 are adoptions. Adoption is traced back to the bible. It is known that the Pharaoh 's wife adopted Moses, and Jesus was even adopted by Joseph. Adoption even goes as far back as
Title: Carrie, the title does not say much about the book for me, but it does fit the book. Author: The author is Stephen King, I have read and watched many stories and films by him. Genre: The genre of this book is horror, fiction.
The loss of the father leaves Carrie in a horrible state especially because of the ardent love she has for him. Through the use of comparison and contrast one can trace the difference between Carrie’s states before and after her father’s death and how this is considered one of the most compelling reasons of the anger she is experiencing. From the very beginning of the novel one can see the huge difference between the father and the step father in the eyes of both the mother and the daughter, as Carrie mentions her mother telling her that Richard “is as different from Daddy as a cow from a crow” (Flock 12), putting in consideration the huge difference between the cow as a sign of liberality and the crow as a sign of misfortune in many cultures. Additionally, Carrie sheds the light on the difference between the relationships between her mother and Richard and how it is totally different that the way it has been with her father. Carrie says “Momma and Daddy held hands down the sidewalk” (Flock 20), on the other hand, she mentions and narrates the long regular quarrels between Richard and her mother throughout the novel like when she says “Upstairs we hear Momma and Richard yelling at each other” (Flock 86). Undoubtedly, a loving family is the healthy environment where a child could live an anger-free life. In contrast, in a family environment full of problems and quarrels and sometimes violence, the mandatory result would be an offspring suffering from severe anger and psychological problems. Carrie Continues to compare between the lovely names that her father used to call her with like “my little princess” and “Daddy’s little princess”, and the names and abusive words Richard uses like “filthy
This is their second marriage. They are both medical professionals and small business owners. Melissa and Matthew are college graduates with some post baccalaureate education. After years of trying to conceive and being unsuccessful, Melissa sought out a fertility specialist and was diagnosed with endometriosis over five years ago. Melissa and Matthew do not have any children together. Matthew has three adult daughters from a previous relationship. Matthew has a complicated relationship with his daughters (as a result of previous relational difficulties with their mother) and as a result, has limited contact with them. Melissa and Matthew are caregivers to two adult males with intellectual disabilities. To date, Melissa and Matthew have not made a decision about whether or not they will seek treatment or consider other options such as