Over 135,000 children are adopted in the United States each year. Of those, 46 percent are private adoptions, 41 percent are from foster care and 13 percent are international. Spencer Stringer and his wife Veronica adopted their son Ajay from India, a culture they love, when they lived abroad in China. Ajay was 11-months-old when the Stringers first met him. Spencer […]
Journey of Parenting: One Love, Many Faces
April 27, 2016 by
By Victoria Landers About 38 percent of the 992 foster children in the Panhandle region of Texas live in Lubbock County, according to the Texas Department of Family Services. With hundreds of children in need of homes, Lubbock officials are looking for more families to volunteer to foster children. On March 3, Lubbock Mayor Glen […]
Finding Home
November 5, 2015 by
By Abby Aldrich Roxanne Derrick remembers the day she found out she was adopted. At the age of 5 or 6, Derrick became curious about her birth. Her adoptive mother took the opportunity to explain. “She said, ‘Well, we couldn’t have any babies of our own, and so we chose you,” Derrick said. “You are […]
