The Adoption Paradigm

The future depends on the children we raise.

Cover Art © Glenda Clemens, 2022

LaDean Cox wanted to live a happy life, marry Bailey Hardcastle and raise her three children with him. Love beckoned her, but her guilt and sorrow were too heavy. She chose instead to sacrifice her life to give her children a better future.

Her three children, Tommy, Bradley, and Hazel were now living with Jake and Gloriana Pennington-Casey. When LaDean signed away her parental rights making them the guardians of her children, she knew she could leave the burden of her life behind without any guilt.

She hoped and prayed that the sins of the father wouldn’t be meted out to her children, but God hadn’t answered her prayers. Besides women were to be obedient to their husbands — and though she tried to be obedient, in the end she simply decided sin was easier than staying in a violent marriage.

She hoped her children’s new parents, Jake and Glory Pennington-Casey would be able to help them learn how to be good and loving people. She worried her children, especially Bradley, would live in fear for the rest of their lives. Their father’s guilt and the wicked life he’d lived haunted LaDean.

Will these children, especially Bradley, live in fear for the rest of their lives?

Will their father’s guilt taint the possibilities for their futures?

Will a rabid bobcat destroy the children’s tenuous hold on the possibility of a better life?

Can adoption save these orphans from lives of fear and loathing and transform their lives into lives of love and belonging?

The battle for the future of the three children and the adults surrounding them is at stake.