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 [...]

I hope I’m not undoing any good that this news story has done.  I couldn’t help but notice that in this article about Connor Cruise, the14-year-old  son of Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, there was no mention made of Connor being Tom and Nicole’s “adopted son.” I’ve seen so many articles that insist on mentioning [...]

It’s so hard to tell what David knows about his adoption.  I know he doesn’t know details–he hasn’t quite put it together that being adopted means there must be another set of parents out there somewhere.    Our niece is staying with us right now, just for a visit.  Today we went into the city [...]