New York Times Article: A Normal Family

The artilce/ editorial can be found here: http://relativechoices.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/a-normal-family/index.html?ref=opinion

I was surprised that, in this class, the topic of adoption was never brought up. Today, again going through the Times Online, I found that there was an article dealing with the topic of 'adoption' as part of a 'normal' family.
The editorial focused on the reactions an adoptive mother witnessed/experienced. I was disappointed to see that this is still happening. The mother wrote, "that adoption is becoming normal. Or least more normalized".
I think that we as teachers have a job to do. We need to make all families viewed by our students as 'normal'. It isnt 'weird' that someone is adopted. It is just a fact of life.
I wish we would have touched on books which go under the category o f adopotion. this could have fallen under any other week, and i wish it would have.