So, I when I posted this story the other day, and promised to post my own reactions, I gave little thought to what happens next. I made a simple committment to post a bit later that day, but in the words of John Lennon, life is what happens when you're busy making other plans. Work is busy, school is busy, the holidays are busy, the new baby keeps me busy and my husband's grandmother passed away as well.

For a time, I was thinking about who was right in the case of the mother looking to un-adopt an older child she had been raising. How could she do such a thing? And what would I do if I was faced with the same situation?... more

There have been a few cases of adoptive parents trying to un-adopt or send their kids back to the country that they were adopted from after for whatever reason their parents no longer want to be their parents. Somehow, I am always drawn to read these stories, to find out exactly why these people who work so hard to become parents later change their mind. This is the latest case which brings up an issue I hadn't seen before in one of these stories. This is off of CNN through the AP. Comments Anyone? I'll post my own reactions later today.

LORTON, Virginia (AP) -- A woman is taking the unusual step... more