Matir Asurim

I totally missed writing all of December.... Must've been busy or something. :-) Well, I've discovered a new (to me) blog .   This...

Why are so many children waiting year after year in foster care, orphanages and institutions around the world?  Why, when so many childless ...

Do you think that only Fundamentalist Christians adopt one special needs child after another , beyond their means , and without carefully pl...

I have been talking a lot about the moral basis for special-needs adoption and how it may be grounded in a non-religious ethical conte...

 A thoughtful reader offered the following comments: ========================== I think that most of my friends who are secular / atheis...

Yesterday I wrote about the risk of adopting an older child, not in term of the difficulties of adjusting once they come home, but even befo...

My husband just completed the Advanced Course at Landmark Education this weekend.  Really empowering stuff!   Landmark has a reputation for...

I'm trying .  Really . A dear friend of mine is a committed, principled, moral Atheist.  I asked him for his views on special needs ad...

Let me try again.  Perhaps I am approaching this the wrong way .   After all, I don't want to convince Secular Humanists and Atheists th...

I was talking with my dad the other day about my project , and he asked, Why focus on the Jewish perspective in particular?  Isn't this ...