Adoption

[Guest Kamperfoelie]

Does adopting a child add it to your 'eternal' family?

And how does this apply to fostering? And how about fostering (young) children (who are too young to baptize, too young to effect their agency and make informed decisions)

How about children of eh... 'troubled' parents? if they are fostered or adopted into a 'new' family? If they choose to have their wayward biological parents baptised post-mortem?

[mnn727]

Adopted children may be sealed to families.

[Maya]

Here you are NOT allowed to teach the fosterchildren of your religion or take them with to hurch without the real parents say yeas. No babtisement nothiong without a yes from the real parents.

Adoptive kids are your own. Except some like me may start wondering should I be sealed to which family.... but after all my AD parents were there for me all the time and neither of them are LDS. And both of them there is one alive. So my family is like a corall island in the sea... not sealed to anything... just us.... do I hear any bids??? Wont go for les than all eternity...

[Drac]

The adopting itself does not add them to the eternal family, but the child may go to the temple with the adoptive parents and be sealed to them. My oldest brother was adopted and was sealed to my parents so he is part of our eternal family. I never even think of him as being adopted unless someone brings it up.

An adopted child could submit their deceased biological parents names to the temple but if they have been sealed to their adoptive parents they would not be able to be sealed to his biological parents. I suppose if they insisted to be sealed to their biological parents it could be done, but I've never heard of it.

[pyxiwulf]

I was told when I adopted my daughter that adoption negates biological in the church's POV. She would have no option but to be sealed to us (my husband's not a member, so this will likely be a proxy-sealing hence why the question arose.)

[Faded]

Does adopting a child add it to your 'eternal' family?

And how does this apply to fostering? And how about fostering (young) children (who are too young to baptize, too young to effect their agency and make informed decisions)

How about children of eh... 'troubled' parents? if they are fostered or adopted into a 'new' family? If they choose to have their wayward biological parents baptized post-mortem?

As has already been pointed out, an adopted child can and generally is sealed to the adoptive parents.

But it is not the child-parent relationships that are the most important. The confusion people encounter comes with asking, "Who 'owns' this child or that?' and "Which family do I really belong to eternally." Well, ultimately every man or woman that ever lived that receives eternal life will all be interlinked into one big family. A great big family of imortal perfect people -- what difference does it make whose child is whose? There significance to that sealing, and everyone can trust God to sort it out to everybody's satisfaction.

It is our sealing to our spouse that holds the most permanent eternal significance.

[Guest Kamperfoelie]

As has already been pointed out, an adopted child can and generally is sealed to the adoptive parents.

But it is not the child-parent relationships that are the most important. The confusion people encounter comes with asking, "Who 'owns' this child or that?' and "Which family do I really belong to eternally." Well, ultimately every man or woman that ever lived that receives eternal life will all be interlinked into one big family. A great big family of imortal perfect people -- what difference does it make whose child is whose? There significance to that sealing, and everyone can trust God to sort it out to everybody's satisfaction.

It is our sealing to our spouse that holds the most permanent eternal significance.

What you're saying sounds very dispersonal: if familybonds are irrelevant (because everyone will be one big family anyway), then what is the actual significance of sealing family members, or then ultimately sealing with a spouse?

[annamaureen]

What you're saying sounds very dispersonal: if familybonds are irrelevant (because everyone will be one big family anyway), then what is the actual significance of sealing family members, or then ultimately sealing with a spouse?

We'll all be one big family because of everyone getting sealed to someone.

[esonderegger]

I have an aunt and an uncle along with a brother in law that are adopted. All of them have had the opportunity to be sealed. In this way they have become part of our eternal family.

[moroni87]

Adopted children can be sealed to an adoptive family just like a family that converts to the LDS Church can be sealed together.