Certain child-rearing subjects hit huge nerves, one such subject being adoption. I opined in a recent column that it is unwise for parents to make a child's adoption a centerpiece of his or her life, ...

As a father of three adopted children, I couldn’t agree with her more. So I reached out to Rep. Bachmann to ask her to add language supporting all adoptive families, including families with two dads ...

Language is the tool we use daily to communicate our ideas. Although we might not be aware of it, there is also a subtext to the words we choose, reflecting our values in subtle ways, even when we ...