How to Create a Loving Family from a Transracial Adoption
No adoption is easy, but transracial adoptions pose unique issues. Along with the normal joys and heartaches of adopting a child, you’ll also encounter challenges stemming from r
How Does an Adoption Home Study Work in Oklahoma?
The process of adoption in Oklahoma can seem complex at first – there are many steps that you’ll need to complete during the process. One of the most important steps is the
Angels of Destiny 2015: An Evening with Kevin Sorbo
Deaconess Pregnancy and Adoptions in Oklahoma City is pleased to invite you to our 8th annual Angels of Destiny fundraising dinner on August 25, 2015. This year our featured speake
Celebrating Older Child Adoption in Oklahoma
Many adoption agencies in Oklahoma focus on infant adoptions. At Deaconess Pregnancy and Adoptions, we also focus our efforts on helping prospective families see the benefits and b
What Is An Adoption Plan?
For many people, finding out they’re pregnant is exciting – but for others, it’s nothing but bad news. If you don’t feel like you’re ready to have a child or don’t
Handling Post-Adoption Depression
New parents frequently hear about postpartum depression and how it can affect life after giving birth. It’s much less common to hear about the counterpart in adoptive parents’
Open or Closed Adoption: Which Is Right for You?
When you decide to adopt a child, you have a lot of additional choices to make. One of the biggest is the kind of adoption you wish to pursue: open, semi-open, or closed adoption.
Jimmy Wayne Concert to Support Oklahoma Foster Children
In 2014, 238 children in Oklahoma’s foster child system aged out of foster care without finding a family to adopt them. Many of these children will be at risk of homelessness,
Deaconess Pregnancy & Adoptions in Oklahoma City
Deaconess Pregnancy & Adoptions is Oklahoma’s oldest adoption agency. For more than 100 years, we have helped connect women facing unplanned pregnancies with adoptive fam