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,...
Parenting
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...
God Will Not Leave Us as Orphans
I recently stumbled across a verse that I had read a number of times before, but it never made an impression on me. In John 14:18, Jesus says, “I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.” Here in the upper room, Jesus is reminding the apostles that, while...
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