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A 2010 picture from the day Tennessee mom Hayley Jones first met the eight siblings she planned to adopt from The Raining Season orphanage in Sierra Leone in West Africa. Two other children from ...
A family in Spring Hill, Tennessee, adopted a set of four siblings in 2021 making them a family of 12 in time for Christmas.
Tennessee Baptist Children's Homes, Inc, a non-profit organization founded in 1891, is a ministry of the churches of the Tennessee Baptist Convention which provides residential care and foster care support for children, as well as family care resources in the state.
Stark County foster parents Aaron and Julie Johnson have been a licensed foster care family since 2020.
The Tennessee Children's Home Society was chartered as a non-profit corporation in 1897. [2] In 1913, the Secretary of State granted the society a second charter. [2] The Society received community support from organizations that supported its mission of "the support, maintenance, care, and welfare of white children under seven years of age admitted to [its] custody."
The number of children served grew throughout the decade. In late 1982, the name of the Home was changed to Tennessee Children's Home. The institutional approach was replaced with family-oriented group homes for the children, with each house led by married couples in an effort to provide a homelike, non-institutional setting.
Adoptions in states such as Mississippi, Arkansas, and Missouri could be arranged for $750. [citation needed] Records indicate that between 1940 and 1950, the agency placed 3,000 children in just those two states. [17] "at a time when adoptions in Tennessee cost the princely sum of $7, some adoptions brokered by Tann cost as much as $5,000" [20]
Appellate judges have revived a couple's lawsuit that alleges a state-sponsored Christian adoption agency wouldn't help them because they are Jewish and argues that a Tennessee law protecting such ...