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The Adoption Triad
Adoption Triangle or Adoption Triad: A term used to describe the three-sided relationship that exists in an adoption between birth parents, adoptive parents and the adoptee, each of which is interrelated and inter-dependent on the others.
Concept describing the genetic and/or legal relationship of the birthparents, adoptive parents and adopted child to each other. Those who support the concept of a “triad” rather than a “triangle” or a “circle” believe that the triad concept is more clear because it does not connote a tightly knit relationship. Rather than being at opposite ends, as in a triangle, or facing each other, as in a circle, the triad describes the major parties to the adoption but does not presume there will be a continuing relationship between the birthparents and the adopted person (although such a relationship could theoretically develop.
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Adoption Songs
Below are a selection of songs that we have gathered that are specifically related to adoption, infant and child loss, or that offer encouragement in the adoption experience. If you know of an adoption song that is not listed here, please email info@bethany.org and we will review it for consideration.
Adoption, The Songs You love – compilation CD on music.adoption.com
All I Really Want – Steven Curtis Chapman; song written from the perspective of a foster child
Angel’s Among Us – Alabama; general children’s song
Children of the World – Amy Grant
Cinderella – Steven Curtis Chapman
Cry Out to Jesus – Third Day; song about the needs of orphans
Dancing with Orphans – Danny Oertli
Daughters of China – CD by Tim Chauvin; cdbaby.com/cd/chauvin
Every Single One – Geoff Moore
Everything To Me – Mark Schultz; birthmother song
From God’s Arms, to My Arms, to Yours – Michael McLean; birthmother song
God Help the Outcasts – Bette Midler
Godspeed – Dixie Chicks; general children’s song
Happy Adoption Day – John McCutcheon
He Would be Sixteen – Michelle Wright; birthmother song
Held – Natalie Grant
I Give You to His Heart – Alison Krauss; birthmother song
I Knew I Loved You – Jenae Wright Price
I Know Your Name – Michael W. Smith
I Saw What I Saw – Sara Groves
I Wanna be Just Like You – Phillips, Craig and Dean
If I Saw You in Heaven – Eric Clapton; child loss
In My Daughter’s Eyes – Martina McBride
In Your Eyes – Nichole Nordeman
Life Means So Much – Chris Rice
Lullaby in Blue – Bette Midler
My Forever Family – CD; Lisa Silver
My Other Mother – Tamar and Katrina Pederson (www.tamarandkatrina.com)
Orphans of God – Avalon
Same/Same: Songs for Adoptive Families – album by Chuck Kent (www.samesamecd.com)
Secret – Reba McEntire; birthmother song
Streets of Heaven – Sherrie Austin; infant or child loss
The Gift We Could Not Give Each Other – Michael McLean; from an adoptive mother to a birthmother
The One Who Knows – Dar Williams; birthmother song; darwilliams.com
The Promise – Jenae Wright Price
Welcome Home – Brian Littrell
Welcome to the Family – CFC Singles for Christ’s Glory Song Book
When Loves Takes You In – Steven Curtis Chapman; adoptive parent song
Who Hears the Cry – J. Brian Hill
You and Me – Rosie Thomas
Your Song – Jenae Wright Price
The story of a girl
Who cried a river and drowned the whole world!
And while she looks so sad in photographs,
I absolutely love her,
When she smiles...
How many days in a year?
She woke up with hope but she only found tears.
And how I can be so insincere,
Making her promises never for real!
As long as she stands there waiting,
Wearing the holes in the soles of her shoes!
How many days disappear?
When you look in the mirror so how do you choose?
Your clothes never wear as well the next day,
And your hair never falls in quite the same way-
But you never seem to run out of things to say...
How many lovers would stay?
Just to put of with this shit day after day!
How did we wind up this way?
Watching our mouths for the words that we say.
As long as we stand here waiting,
Wearing the clothes of the souls that we choose!
How do we get there today?
When we're walking to far for the price of our shoes!
Your clothes never wear as well the next day,
And your hair never falls in quite the same way-
But you never seem to run out of things to say!...
This is the story of a girl;
Her pretty face she hid from the world!
And while she looks so sad and lonely there,
I absolutely love her,
When she smiles...