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How Can I Help? Financial Support Your gift will make a difference TODAY! Please direct your gift to:
Everyday Blessings Considering a Gift of Stock? Matching Gifts Contact Vikki Reece at 813/982-9226 ext. 239 or devdir@everybless.org for additional information. Needed Items
* Clorox spray Contact Pat Burdette at 813/982-9226 ext. 240 or everydayblessings@everybless.org for additional information. Volunteers Are Always Needed! Do you have free time and enjoy children? Do you dig yard work? Love cooking? How about office work? Everyday Blessings has numerous volunteer opportunities. Come and spend time with children in our residential program:
Volunteer Orientation is conducted the third Saturday of every month. You are crucial to our success!
Contact Pat Burdette at 813/982-9226 ext. 240 or everydayblessings@everybless.org for additional information. Friends of Everyday Blessings In September 2002, the first Friends of Everyday Blessings was started in South Tampa. Friends groups act as an information source to the community, provide volunteer support and get involved in planning special events. Everyone is welcome to attend. Everyday Blessings invites you to become part of an existing Friends of Everyday Blessings (South Tampa, Temple Terrace and Valrico) or start a new group in your area. Call us today! Contact Pat Burdette at 813/982-9226 ext. 240 or everydayblessings@everybless.org for additional information. |
The History of Adoption Adoption is an ancient arrangement. It is spoken of in the Bible, and Greeks, Romans, Egyptians and Babylonians all had adoption systems. For centuries, in Europe and North America, "adoption" was established and intended to protect property rights. If a couple (or individual) did not want their property to revert to the state on their death/s, an heir was necessary. Consequently, "adoption" most often took place with ADULTS, not children, to circumvent the property laws. This was of particular import to male land owners since their wives almost always outlived them, and a woman could not be a land owner. "Adoption" protected her financially by extracting a promise from the person adopted to provide for the widow. In the United States, the first adoption statutes were... well adopted... in the 1850s (1851 in Massachusetts to be exact), legitimizing the informal adoption agreements that had been in effect previously. In the early twentieth century, statutes began to address the confidentiality of adoption information as to the public at large, but not between the parties to an adoption. It was not until the 1930's that statutes evolved which were designed to preserve the exclusivity of the adoptive home. |
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Everyday Blessings This initial website was produced with the generous assistance of the Children's Board of Hillsborough County. Everyday Blessings is a Florida licensed child placing agency providing services to birth parents, adoptive/foster parents and, especially to children involved in the adoption process. It has complied with the standards set by the State of Florida, Department of Children and Families, for a child placing agency. As such it is licensed to operate as a child placing agency and this license shall continue in force and be renewed on the 25th day of July of each year. Our services are sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of Children and Families. Other sponsors include the Children's Board of Hillsborough County as well as numerous foundations, corporations and individuals. Everyday Blessings is a program of St. Francis Foundation, Inc., a 501 (c) (3) not-for-profit Florida corporation. All donations are tax deductible. |