{"id":7627,"date":"2019-11-20T03:00:06","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T09:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=7627"},"modified":"2019-11-20T03:07:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T09:07:00","slug":"blending-a-family-of-adopted-and-biological-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=7627","title":{"rendered":"Blending a Family of Adopted and Biological Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&rsquo;s Note: In this third article of a five-part Adoption series on the BCC Grace and Truth blog, Steve Viars discusses blending a family of adopted and biological children. In other contributions to the mini-series, Kyle Johnston offers three considerations for the family considering adoption, Andrew Rogers considers how parenting styles affect the way adopted children perceive themselves&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblicalcounselingcoalition.org\/2019\/11\/20\/blending-a-family-of-adopted-and-biological-children\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife Kris and I have been blessed with three children, two of whom are adopted. That means every person in our immediate family has a different biological father and a different biological mother. To add to our joy, our adopted son, Andrew, also has special needs\u2014including blindness and a number of other cognitive\/behavioral challenges. Continue Reading \u2192<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[279],"tags":[34,263,38,1094],"class_list":["post-7627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biblical-counseling-coalition-bcc","tag-adoption","tag-children","tag-parenting","tag-thanksgiving","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7629,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7627\/revisions\/7629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}