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 [...]