By now we’ve all heard about–and been closely watching–the story of Torry Hansen of Tennessee, who attempted to adopt a little boy from Russia, but found him to have psychological problems so severe that she feared for her safety.  If you’ve been living under a rock recently, you can find the story here, among other [...]

We are sitting in our living room watching The Ten Commandments.   I’ve been thinking about Moses, and the fact that he’s adopted…so many people are, aren’t they? It’s hard to sit here with my David and watch Moses get adopted by the Pharoah’s daughter under the worst of circumstances.  Moses grows up loved, cared for, [...]

I was thinking about this because I read this story, about a woman who adopted a baby girl from Guatemala, and soon after she got the baby home, she found a mass in her little belly.  It turned out the girl, whose name was Gloria Joy, had Stage 4 liver cancer.  She had a round [...]

Merry Christmas, and Happy Birthday to the Western World’s most famous adoptee, Jesus. This blog, of course, is named after Jesus’ adopted father, Joseph.  Joseph was there when his son was born, just like I was there when my son was born.  Joseph watched out for the baby’s mother and made sure she had what [...]

Elf has in the past been one of our favorite Christmas movies.  And just taken on its own terms, it’s pretty good.  I think it’s one of Will Ferrell’s best performances, in the role of the human boy who is adopted by elves and raised as an elf, then leaves the North Pole to find [...]

What is Open Adoption? Adoption is a process by which a child is born to one set of biological parents, and is then raised by different parents. The adoptive parents are the child’s legal parents. But just because the child is being loved and raised by his or her legal parents, should that mean that [...]

We’ve wondered for a little while now if David might have a learning disability, specifically dyslexia.  He actually reads pretty well, when we can get him to sit down and just do it, but he reverses letters a lot, and he often puts letters in where none exist (he recently read “sent” instead of “set,” [...]

This is kind of a complicated situation.  Julia Boseman is a state senator in North Carolina, and recently broke up with her lesbian partner.  The couple had a son together who is now 6.  The other partner, Melissa Jarrell, gave birth to the son, and Boseman adopted him.  When the couple split, there was apparently [...]

Because I write several blogs, I access several news sources every day–some better than others.  In doing some reserach on the custody situation between Michael Jackson’s parents and his ex-wife, Debbie Rowe, I was glancing over the comments, and came across this one:   “This situation is nothing new. It happens all the time when [...]