As proclaimed by the President, today marks the first day of National Adoption Month, thirty days cumulatively singled out by the White House to "recognize the adoptive and foster families who have shared their homes and hearts with children in need", and to encourage more families to consider adoption.

Unlike many who put adoptive parents in league with the devil, insist on using the word "adopters" to address mothers and fathers, and strongly suggest that a world without hopeful adoptive families would see no need for adoptions at all, the White House statement unabashedly claims that: Families... more