Adoption
Another option if you have an unwanted pregnancy is to give the baby up for adoption. This is not an easy decision and there are emotional consequences for this decision.
Adoption is giving up all legal rights to your child. You will have no rights in terms of how they are raised and parenting decisions.
Everybody involved in adoption recognises that it is a serious step for a birth mother and father to take, and one that must be thought through. Birth mothers and fathers, regardless of their situation, just after the birth of a baby may feel frightened, ashamed or guilty about their feelings. They may also experience feelings of anxiety, self doubt, uncertainty and feel overwhelmed by the responsibility of caring for a baby.
While adoption is hard for both the birth family and the adoptive family, what it does it gives life to the child of the birth mother. Since, we are not God, we do not know what the child will achieve, it could make a scientific discovery or it could be a great encourager and encourages someone who inspires young people to pursue their dreams.
Adoption by God
In the secular world, adoption was usually for the benefit of the adoptive parents, not for the benefit of the child. For example, a farmer might want help with tilling his land, or a childless couple might want someone to look after them in old age, or an aristocrat might want someone to perpetuate the family name. In the New Testament the benefits are all the other way.
>While we may be sure that adoption gives God immense satisfaction, he never adopts in order to meet some need of his own. He adopts us because he loves us, not because he needs us. And far from exploiting us and subjecting us to a life of drudgery, he showers upon us every spiritual blessing (Ephesians 1:3) and fills our lives with the melody of joy and salvation (Psalm 118:15). When we surrender our lifes to God, He does not promise that we will have a life without suffering but that He will be there with us when we are going through suffering.
sBeing adopted by God and become sons and daughters of God means we are entitled to God s inheritance