Let’s start with what I’m not. I’m not a pagan—I believe in God even if I look like a pagan to outsiders. My faith is shared only in conversation with a few people I trust. (Not the dogmatists. I don’t trust them.) I also think it’s fine to be...

There is a candid post on adoption disruption over at their website. I had heard of this family before through another blogger around the time Anita Tedaldi announced her adoption disruption in the New York Times. My original post was up for about 5...

Time’s Richard Corliss has a thoughtful review of The Blind Side in which he considers race, adoption, and “saving” children. An excerpt: All of Michael’s enablers are white folks. Here are the film’s main black characters: his crack-addicted mother...

If you’ve read this and this here, you may be assuming what I will write about. But when I clicked on the story announced by the words “God Directed Me” there was a surprise waiting: an African-American appears-to-be-single woman who adopted her...

At this blog I learned of a new adoption scheme being proposed by Coram, a children’s charity in the UK. The plan is as follows: Babies taken into care immediately after birth (substance abuse and imprisonment mentioned most commonly) are transferred...