Adoptive parents Tony Merida, Rosaria Butterfield, and Dennae Pierre sat down to talk about those hardships and how you can come alongside adoptive parents in your church family. When working through challenges that arise for children who have experienced trauma, some adoptive parents instinctually "hunker down" and try to make it through without the support of their church family. But Dennae Pierre insists the best advice she can give to adoptive parents is, "Don't do it by yourself."