Gladney Adoption Agency

Yesterday The Beck family took me to Gladney Adoption Agency in Fort Worth Texas. Gladney helps kids that dont have a mom and dad find moms and dads. It also helps ladies that are having babies and want to place those babies for adoption. That means the ladies look through lots of profiles of families who want a baby and then they choose which family to give the baby too. Miss Ashlee said it wasnt because they didnt love their babies but because they loved them so much they wanted the very best for them.

We looked all around at all the really neat facts and posters about how Gladney started. Back a long long long time ago kids that needed a home were put on a train and shipped all over the country. When the train stopped men and women would be there and they would take a kid or two and the ones left would go on to the next stop. At the end if anyone was left the last stop was Fort Worth. When one of the orphan train lines ended in Fort Worth, Rev. Isaac Zachary Taylor Morris and his wife, Belle, began taking the "leftover" children home and actively sought adoptive families for these children. That was the beginning of the Texas Children's Home and Aid Society. Then this woman named Edna Gladney took over and did a lot of great stuff for orphans. When the orphan trains stopped in 1929, some 150,000 children found new homes in the American West.

The Beck's adopted Noah when he was a baby and now they are adopting a big kid! They say that sometime in the future they will have a boy with down syndrome. He may be 5 or 6 years old when they adopt him.They are very excited.

Do you know anyone who was adopted? Were you adopted? I think that is so cool.

Adults can click HERE to check out some really cool facts about Gladney and adoption back in the day. A short sweet read.





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