“He’s just perfect, I can’t even describe him any other way.” –Sandra Bullock, speaking of her son, Louis

Time and experience have taught me a priceless lesson: Any child you take for your own becomes your own if you give of yourself to that child. I have borne two children and had seven others by adoption, and they are all my children, equally beloved and precious. Dale Evans adoptive parent

Father of the fatherless, you give your children a home in which to dwell; and like a loving mother you gather us into your household. We give you thanks for the child who has come to bless this family and for the parents who have taken this child to be their own. By the power [...]

In the 1950′s, Otelia Compton was awarded an honorary doctorate from Western College in Ohio for her achievements as “Wife and Mother of Comptons.”  It was a pretty extraordinary achievement–her children founded missionary schools, ran major corporations, and won the Nobel Prize. Dr. Compton was then interviewed by Milton S. Mayer, who asked her, “How [...]

An invisible thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time and circumstance.  The thread may stretch or tangle, but will never break. –Chinese Legend This is how DH and I feel about David.  It’s incredible how many details of our lives had to happen exactly as they did for us to be [...]

To restore the link between generations is our task.  I think that a lot of problems that arise today are caused by the loss of the institution of family.  Family should lay down the foundation for upbringing. –Alexy II, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia

In all of us there is a hunger, narrow and deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we have come from.  Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning.  No matter what our attainments in life, there is a vacuum, an emptiness and a most disquieting loneliness! – Alex [...]

Making the decision to have a child is momentous.  It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.  ~Elizabeth Stone