Ellen Goodman takes the issue of gay adoption personally
Ellen Goodman in The Boston Globe writes ...IN MY business, it's only fair to acknowledge a bias. My bias is named Ruthie.I expect people's perceptions change a lot when the issue comes close to home.Ruthie is the youngest cousin in a bumper crop of babies that have extended our family over the last few years. When she was adopted, we didn't pass out cigars, we passed out Baby Ruth bars. So maybe it's our fault that she's now in the sugar-rush stage of toddlerhood, leaving her parents joyously breathless and regularly transforming her grandmother's house into Early Childproof Decor.
Did I mention that Ruthie has two daddies, something her toddler cousins take for granted? Did I mention that Ruthie's birth mother chose this couple to raise her, picking these two men from all the dossiers at the adoption agency? ...
posted by Paul Wilczynski @ 11:42 AM
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