Library in the great room of our house.

I’m not sure I have a better idea for how to run adoptions. Even so, the ambiance bothered me. These were children. Not cars! They weren’t responsibilities, or problems, or issues, or challenges, or cases, or files, or even statistics.

These were little people who for a very few short years needed big people as much as big people need them. Why did they need to be “sold,” or “placed,” or whatever else it is that private and government agencies do with things they “handle”?

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About the Author

John M. Simmons is an adoption advocate and author of the award-winning novels The Marvelous Journey Home and To Sing Frogs. John performs television and radio interviews and writes editorials to share his experience with special needs and international adoption. He appears at book clubs, and is a frequent guest speaker for various groups to increase adoption awareness. He and his wife have three biological sons and six adopted children.