All families symbolize loving and caring for each other.
How those families are created, however, represents many approaches birth children, foster children, adopted children, single parents, step parents, foster parents. In particular, there are an increasing number of adoptive families and single-parent families by choice. Both singles and couples are choosing to expand their families by adopting children of many ages, both domestically and internationally. As friends, neighbors, teachers, rabbis, and ministers to these families, we often fail to consider how our actions and language impact the daily lives of adoptive families. As the single parent of an adoptive daughter, these topics are extremely relevant to me, as well as thousands of other families who live in Middle Tennessee.