My Son

THIS IS OUR SON.
We adopted him,
but we do NOT
refer to him as
"our adopted son."
He is simply "our son".

THIS IS OUR SON--
and the nephew of his aunts and uncles,
the grandson of his grandparents,
the cousin of his cousins,
and the brother of any future children
we add to our family
by biology or adoption.

THIS IS OUR SON.
There is no "return policy"
on an adopted child.
The whole idea of adopting
is a lot like marriage.
You make a lifetime
commitment to a person
with no biological
relationship to you.
You promise to "love and cherish"
for "richer, for poorer,
for better, for worse,
in sickness and in health-
as long as we both shall live."

THIS IS OUR SON,
and we ARE his real parents.
He has birth parents
(sometimes called
biological parents),
but we are his Mom and Dad,
and always will be.

THIS IS OUR SON,
and we love him.