Our Adoption Stories

 Brian and Stephanie Carpenter have 11 daughters. Their first international adoption of their daughter Sasha was in 1998 from Russia. Now, her adoption story has come full-circle as Sasha was reunified with her Russian birth family in April 2018. Their most current adoption is of their youngest daughter Christina (above right) from Bulgaria in September 2019. In all, the Carpenter family’s adoption experience is vast and diverse including:​

● Adoptions from: Russia (2), Taiwan, the Philippines (of their daughter Avigayil, pictured above left), Ukraine (2), China     (3) and Bulgaria (2). 

● Special-needs experience including: Cerebral Palsy (spastic quadriplegia), Orthopedic needs, spina bifida, profound deafness, feeding tubes, failure-to-thrive, traumatic brain injury, PTSD, institutional autism, dyslexia and dysgraphia. 

● A successful, special-needs expedited adoption from China, completed from start to finish in 6.5 weeks before their daughter Hannah’s 14th birthday and Finalized in-country 8 hours before she would have aged-out​