Michael Bay American Film Director and Producer, Michael Benjamin Bay, was born in Los Angeles, California on February 17, 1965. When he was a small baby he was adopted by Jim and Harriet Bay. His adoptive father was an accountant and his adoptive mother was a bookstore owner/ child psychiatrist. It has not been proven, [...]

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 know…it’s shocking.  To read the blogosphere, you’d think that all adopted children were struggling with their “primal wound” and felt alienated in their own families.  You wouldn’t know it by looking at OUR family, but we’ve actually been told that our son does feel that way, and we’re forcing him to be in denial. [...]

How Much Does an Open Adoption Cost? As with many important questions, the answer to this one is, “It depends.” The answers can range from next to nothing to tens of thousands of dollars. In our family, our total cost for adopting David was about $1200, and we didn’t have to pay it all at [...]

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 [...]

Several members of my husband’s family, including DH himself, are very into geneaology.  They have a pretty interesting family history.  They’ve just traced one branch all the way back to Charlemagne–they’re direct descendants!  Through another line, they’re directly descended from Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland.  They also have connections to Thomas Jefferson and Daniel [...]

Aristotle is one of the most important philsophers in the history of civilization.  He lived from 384-322 BC.  His father was the physician to Athenian King Amyntas II, but both of his parents died while he was very young.  He was adopted by Proxenas, who then sent him to the Academy, Plato’s school of philosophy [...]

It’s not always easy to come up with the perfect name for a child, and with an adopted child there can be other issues in play as well.  A blog called Nameisms talks about this subject a lot.  The article I just linked to gives some general guidelines for things to consider when you adopt [...]