{"id":24819,"date":"2025-12-16T20:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T20:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=24819"},"modified":"2025-12-16T20:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T20:00:17","slug":"i-adopted-a-baby-after-making-a-promise-to-god-17-years-later-she-broke-my-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=24819","title":{"rendered":"I Adopted a Baby After Making a Promise to God \u2013 17 Years Later, She Broke My Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I longed to be a mother, enduring years of miscarriages that drained my hope and strained my marriage. In my darkest moment, I prayed for a child and promised to give a home to one who had none. Soon after, I gave birth to Stephanie, and a year later we adopted Ruth, keeping our promise. I loved both girls deeply, raising them with honesty about their origins, but as they grew, their differences fueled rivalry\u2014Stephanie confident and commanding, Ruth quiet and cautious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At 17, Ruth discovered the truth behind my prayer and believed she was adopted only as part of a bargain. Hurt and angry, she ran away after prom. When she returned days later, she told me she didn\u2019t want to be my promise\u2014only my daughter. Holding her, I assured her she always had been, and in that moment, our family began to heal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I longed to be a mother, enduring years of miscarriages that drained my hope and strained my marriage. In my darkest moment, I prayed for a child&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":447,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24821,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24819\/revisions\/24821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}