Difference Doesn’t Always Mean Separate

There are a lot of negative adoption stories and experiences “out there”. I have been privileged in many many ways and that privilege carries over into my experiences with adoption. Although it hasn’t all been good, I can confidently say that I am glad I was adopted. I can’t really say I would prefer it […]

Family In Flux

A theme that keeps cropping up is this idea that adoptees, although I still don’t really like that title, are not really related to their adoptive families. It seems that underlying this argument is the assumption that family is defined by who is biologically related to each other. Obviously though, as I’m sure everyone acknowledges […]

Family Feud

When most people think of a family, in the US, they imagine two opposite sex parents and two biologic children of those parents. That image is beginning to fade, or at least morph to include many “non-traditional” families. Again, here when we think of non-traditional families we envision a same-sex couple maybe with a child […]