Here are phrases common in the Chinese adoptive community. • Paperchasing: the process of obtaining paperwork required for adoption. • Waiting family: a family that has completed its paperwork and is ...

Certain child-rearing subjects hit huge nerves, one such subject being adoption. I opined in a recent column that it is unwise for parents to make a child's adoption a centerpiece of his or her life, ...

Language is the tool we use daily to communicate our ideas. Although we might not be aware of it, there is also a subtext to the words we choose, reflecting our values in subtle ways, even when we ...