Today we celebrate fathers. I have a great dad and he is so much of the reason that I am who I am today. As I watch Noah and Zoë with their dad, my amazing husband, I know they are as lucky as I am to have a great dad. A Father’s influence is powerful.

Then I thin of their Ethiopian fathers. In adoption we talk about birthmother’s all the time and more often then not forget about birthfathers. I think much of that is due to the assumption that this men who helped make these children ate somehow uninvolved, uncaring, or unimportant. The birthmother carries the child, etc. In the case of adoption, we assume a lot about birthfathers.

Today I celebrate the amazing men who helped create the children that I am lucky enough to parent. I don’t know the stories of these men, but I choose to believe they were men who created these children were loving and caring and whose circumstances didn’t allow them to be able to parent together with the birthmothers.

I hope they know in their hearts how amazing their children are and how much we love them.

Today is a day for all fathers.