Adoption Isn’t Abandonment

Simply put, abandonment is selfish whereas adoption seeks the good of the child.

Someone who puts their child up for adoption because he or she doesn’t care is guilty of selfishness but minimizes the effect of the sin by seeing to it that the child will be cared for.

Someone who has a child but realizes that he or she is not in any meaningful way truly able to raise the child does an unselfish act by giving the child up for adoption and what the parent hopes to be a better family situation.

Someone who simply leaves and totally abandons a child without any reasonable hope the child will be cared for is guilty of selfishness and harm to the child.