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Surely, they exist?
The reality of our current culture is that families are not coming in to adopt – or even foster – older teens. Not that we always had a large contingent of such families, but it is much worse than ever. … Continue reading
The Luckiest Man I’ve Ever Met
I adopted my first kids nearly 48 years ago, although their finalizations took a while. Since then, I have adopted many more. All of this came together again yesterday, on Father’s Day, when I heard from most of them, and … Continue reading
Any Family Is NOT Better Than No Family
The push in recent years has been to avoid placing kids into foster care. The idea has been to keep the kids home and provide whatever services they or their families might need in order to make it work. It’s certainly … Continue reading
I’m back – years later, but I’m back
This is a new blog. It is connected to my old blog (Jack Brennan Perspectives.com) but whereas the old one was my personal perspective, this one is from the agency perspective. The two are closely related but the purpose is … Continue reading
“It’s You – Not Me”
I want to tell you of my own experience with the Child Protective System (CPS). When I took my first kids – 3 brothers, 8, 10. 12 – I had no intention of adoption. Their mother went into rehab … Continue reading
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The Measure of an Adult
When I was in high school math class, it intrigued the heck out of me that there were some kind of equations that had more than one correct answer. If you stopped at the first answer, because it worked, and … Continue reading
If A Relationship Is Not A “We”, Then What Is It?
When you adopt a kid from the foster care system, especially a teen, and more especially one who was living in an institution (the old orphanages), you have to recognize that their experiences have led them to thinking – and not … Continue reading
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Perspectives Part Two (over a decade later): Stories and Musings of a Now Old Man
I’m an old man now, by any measure: I’ll be 75 in September. But I’m still working full-time. I have a twenty year old whose adoption I finalized 15 months ago. And I reopened my foster care license two months … Continue reading
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A Broken Heart Is Not the Same As A Closed Heart
I was at a meeting last week where adoption workers and supervisors from different counties got together in an attempt to find families for kids who are in particular need – kids who have no one personal in their lives at … Continue reading
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Catch-22
Okay, I’m back. Or more accurately, I think I’m back. It’s been six months since I made a blog entry and I can’t believe that it has been that long. Where have I been? Busy, of course. What else could … Continue reading
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