Naming Your Child: Reaching Agreement
My husband and I could not agree on a name for a baby boy. While his ideas for girls’ names (mostly names that sounded like porn stars) and my ideas for girls’ names (too “Southern belle,” according...
View ArticleNaming Your Child: Semi-open Adoption
When my husband and I were considering baby names, we never once thought about inviting an expecting mother’s input into the process. If I had known that this was even an issue, I probably would have...
View ArticleNaming Your Child: Open Adoption
As I mentioned in my last post, Naming Your Child: Semi-open Adoption, my husband and I never considered asking for input on our son’s name from his then-placing mother. Perhaps we should have done...
View ArticleNaming Your Child: Using Family Names
When we were going through our home study, our social worker suggested that we read several books about adoption. I disagreed with many of the suggestions provided in one of the books, but the issue...
View ArticleNaming Your Child: International Adoption
As you can see from the “Related Topics” at the bottom of this post, naming a child who joins your family through international adoption is a hot topic in the adoption community. Some people believe...
View ArticleNaming Your Child: Older Children
One controversial area of naming your child really surprised me – naming your older adopted child. I just assumed that when people adopted a child who was old enough to talk and identify himself by...
View ArticleNaming Your Child: Some Final Words
A child’s name is a loving gift that we bestow upon a child. Naming a child carries with it a big responsibility. Most of us know people who dislike their names for various reasons. We want a child’s...
View ArticleName It, Claim It
I was talking with some friends over the screams of our children just yesterday, one of whom blogs here, and she was recounting a discussion she had on a Yahoo! adoption list. The discussion at hand...
View ArticleOpen Adoption Roundtable: Naming
This week’s Open Adoption Roundtable topic is: Write about names/naming and open adoption. When you adopt, naming isn’t necessarily straightforward. You have many choices: Keep the name the child’s...
View ArticleKeeping Busy During the Wait
Adoption is filled with emotional highs and lows. One of the most difficult times during the adoption journey is “the wait” for a referral or match with a birthmother. It is an unknown length of time....
View ArticleOne Name to Unite Us?
When I got divorced last year, it made sense for me to keep my married name. I got married during graduate school, so my entire post-education career had been conducted under that name. It was my...
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