Although the title of this post does make it sound like I'm about to take off on the hilarious thread going on over on the geezer adoptive parent group, GAARP, about adoption from other planets ... I'm asking permission now to post some of the amazingly creative comments here as a testament to the brilliance of older adoptive parents ... this will be a rather down-to-earth composition.

(If you are looking for writing from me on interplanetary adoption,... more

It doesn't take much to start heated debates on web groups. It could be that this is the case especially when the group is adoption-related topic-wise, but I wouldn't know if others are just as quick to rile as I don't often frequent sites that address other interests. At the moment, members on various groups are up in arms, and at each other's throats, about, amongst other things, baby safe havens, a Chinese adoptee's bat mitzvah, the... more

Sheesh!

That's the only printable reaction I'm having to a big brouhaha taking place on one of my favorite geezer groups. Well, actually off the group, as moderators jumped into the fray before the situation got completely out of hand. Thank heaven for the unsung moderators of the cyber world. (Thankless job, until someone thanks them. I'm happy to.)

Here's the deal ...

This photo ... the one right up there of my darling son doing his favorite rendition of an ape going ape ... upset a woman so much that she... more

There's been some discussion on the GAARP site lately about prejudice and religious intolerance in adoption agencies. It started with this: "... The adoption world is invariably involved with children from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds and religions, and I assume (hope...pray) that the parents are not prejudice or they wouldn't be adopting them.

Yet, these same agencies, and sometimes parents, are totally comfortable inserting stipulations that the adopting parents... more