Illustrates the hidden challenges embedded within the evangelical adoption movement. ampnbspFor over a decade prominent leaders and organizations among American Evangelicals have spent a substantial amount of time and money in an effort to address what they believe to be the amp8220Orphan Crisisamp8221 of the United States. Yet despite an expansive commitment of resources there is no reliable evidence that these efforts have been successful. Adoptions are declining across the board and both foster parenting and fosteradoptions remain steady. Why have evangelical mobilization efforts been so ineffectiveampnbspTo answer this question Samuel L. Perry draws on interviews with over 220 movement leaders and grassroots families as well as national data on adoption and fostering to show that the problem goes beyond orphan care. Perry argues that evangelical social engagement is fundamentally selflimiting and difficult to sustain because their subcultural commitments lock them into an approach that does not work on a practical level. ampnbspGrowing Godamp8217s Family ultimately reveals this peculiar irony within American evangelicalism by exposing how certain aspects of the evangelical subculture may stimulate activism to address social problems even while these same subcultural characteristics undermine their own strategic effectiveness. ampnbspIt provides the most recent analysis of dominant elements within the evangelical subculture and how that subculture shapes the engagement strategies of evangelicals as a group.ampnbsp