John's Articles
Loving Parents Who Set Boundaries Best for Adopted Kids
Posted on 8/21/2019
Q: A Christian (but very liberal) adoption agency recently turned down our application because they disapprove of our parenting approach, which is your parenting approach. We told them we...
Read MoreFamily Is Family, No Matter the Prefix
Posted on 6/25/2019
Q: We have two married daughters, one of whom is adopted. The biological daughter has two children who, we recently discovered, have been told that it is wrong to call our adopted daughter “aunt...
Read MoreAdopted Son Wants to Live With Biological Mother
Posted on 2/21/2017
Q: Our 14-year-old son, who was adopted by open adoption, now wants to go live with his birth-mother. She was completely out of the picture until a couple of years ago when she suddenly showed...
Read MoreAdoption Advice
Posted on 5/19/2015
Copyright 2015, John K. Rosemond Q: We have two children, ages 9 and 5, and are considering adopting a third, perhaps an older child, even a teenager. Do you have any advice for us? ...
Read MoreDon't Make a Big Deal of Adoption
Posted on 4/8/1990
Q. We recently adopted a baby boy. The social worker at the agency told us we should make this adoption part of "normal, everyday conversation" from day one. She said we should talk to him about...
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