Once a year, in November, the nation dons rose-colored glasses for the annul November Adopt-a-Thon, known as National Adoption Month (aka National Adoption Awareness Month), to exalt the blessings of adoption with a proliferation of happily-ever-stories intended to encourage more adoptions.

But infant adoption needs no such encouragement, inasmuch as…

Adoption is a social, emotional, and legal process through which the custody an dcare of children is transferred. With 1.5 million adoptees in the United States — 25 percent of the population, or one in 50 people — most of us know someone who has been adopted, is longing to…

In “The Son My Sister Placed for Adoption Wants to Find Her. What Should I Do?”, NY Times, Oct. 26, 2021, Ethicist Kwame Anthony Appiah questions the ethics of confidentiality versus a right to know one’s biological ancestry for those separated by adoption. …

But how else can gay men become parents?

Abstract

Wanting to be a parent is natural, but while there is a constitutionally protected right to parent one’s child, there is no right to have or obtain a child. Opposition to surrogacy is for the same reason it is illegal in…

But How Else Can Gay Men Become Parents?

Abstract

Wanting to be a parent is natural, but while there is a constitutionally protected right to parent one’s child, there is no right to have or obtain a child. Opposition to surrogacy is for the same reason it is illegal in…

I have been living with Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) for 40+ years. I got it in my 30s while mothering three children. Many people get it younger than that — even as children.

Above is what it did to me. People stare, or look away. I cannot straighten my hands and…

The general public sees adoption as an act of altruistic love — a “win-win” wherein an otherwise “unwanted” child is “saved” by parents seeking a child who are admired.

Such is the dominant narrative about adoption: a fairy-tale story about children being “chosen” by their “forever” families as seen through…

Were you the girl who snickered at classmates who didn’t have the “right” hairdo, clothes or shoes? Did you whisper about girls who were “teacher’s pet” or nerdy? Did you participate in fat shaming; ostracize those you saw as unworthy of being in the “in”?

Were you the schoolyard boy…