by beanstalk | Nov 3, 2023 | Adoption, Blog
November is National Adoption Month, a time to celebrate the transformative power of adoption and raise awareness about the need for loving families for children. Courtesy of Lutheran Family and Children’s Services (LFCS), here are some of the most current adoption...
by beanstalk | Jul 22, 2016 | Adoption, Blog
What are Open, Closed, Semi-Open and Semi-Closed Adoptions? An open adoption is an adoption where all identifying information is shared between the biological parents and the adoptive family, including last names, addresses, phone numbers and birth dates. It also...
by beanstalk | Feb 12, 2016 | Adoption, Blog
Have you completed your family through in vitro fertilization (IVF)? Do you have frozen embryos in storage from those procedures? There are currently over 600,000 frozen embryos in storage in the United States. If you are one of the families with these embryos, you...
by beanstalk | Dec 10, 2015 | Adoption, Blog, pregnancy services
“Thank you so much, LFCS, for helping us with the most precious gift in the world!” Little Jake found a forever loving home, because of friends like you! Jake’s birth parents knew they were not in a position to raise a child and had turned to LFCS to find a loving...
by beanstalk | Nov 16, 2015 | Blog
David was born in St. Louis in April of 1968. In May of that same year, his adoption of finalized and he became the son of Joe and Loretta Pennington. “I was raised by the most incredible parents in a home filled with love,” said David. He grew...
