<![CDATA[I’m more than a little flummoxed by this column by politically moderate columnist Steve Chapman of the Chicago Tribune, who wrote a scathing indictment of conservatives who use political means to prevent gays from adopting children. His thesis is that doing so is particularly spiteful because it means that more children are prevented from being…

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<![CDATA[So here is the thing. For many reasons, I’m not the best person to be talking about this. Yet, I’m a blogger. So when it comes to spilling out my commentary on issues du jour, I haven’t let lack of qualification stop me before.I’m not a parent yet. I do plan to be one, though…

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<![CDATA[ So I see a question posed in the RSS reader of my Gmail, the headline of a CNN story on transracial adoption. This being such a complicated issue, fraught with nuance and complexity… I will answer it with short, pithy phrases: Do Whites need training before parenting Black children? In one word? YES. In…

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