As parents, we enter adoption with a lot of unknowns. We question whether our new child(ren) will possess giftedness or special ability. We question the reasons for the events that led to their availability for adoption. We wonder about their future and if and whom...
Parenting
Marriage in Adoption
How do our adopted children view marriage and family? This is not a simple question to answer, because many of them start out with a dysfunctional view of the family and of their birth parents. They may have had a positive experience with one member of their family,...
Acute Medical History in Adoption
Recently, I was discussing a medical history of a potential adoptee with his future parents. We talked about a specific issue regarding his health and prognosis. Medical diagnoses and care vary greatly from place to place. The accuracy of the diagnosis can even vary...
The Role of Discipline in Training Adopted Children
Discipline is often confused with punishment, especially when it comes to adopted children. But it doesn’t need to be. Punishment is focused on the misbehavior and its outcomes, and is designed to teach our child that there are natural consequences to his actions....
Dealing with Uncertainty in Your Adopted Child’s Heart, Part 2
In the previous blog, I mentioned six causes of uncertainty in the mind of an adopted child (abuse by birth parents, uncertainty due to attachment disorder, uncertainty due to physical abnormalities, uncertainty due to being in a new culture, uncertainty due to lack...
Dealing with Uncertainty in Your Adopted Child’s Heart, Part 1
Uncertainty is a fact of life. Children who are adopted deal with uncertainly because of the disruptive family life that caused them to lose their birth parents. This uncertainty is in addition to the usual questions that children ask because of their age. In order to...
A Father to the Fatherless, Part 2
God’s concern for the fatherless extends far deeper than we imagine. When we look at pictures of children who wait to be adopted, we fall in love with an image of what we think they will be like as part of our family. Once we have adopted them, we realize that they...
A Father to the Fatherless, Part 1
God’s concern for the fatherless extends further than we imagine. When we look at pictures of children who wait to be adopted, we fall in love with an image of what we think they will be like as part of our family. After we have adopted them, we discover that they...
Marcellus George
Marcellus George and his loving wife are the adoptive parents of (now adult) twin sons. He is the author of numerous articles and devotions, has a Ph.D. in theology... Read More