Adoptive parents have the right to change their children’s names when they are adopted. With one exception, our boys have the same first names that they had when they came to us. Their middle names were names that I associate with African American children. We changed them, but not for that reason. I did not want to keep names that I would not have given them myself. Some people may not like that and say that we have taken their heritage away from them. We have given them our family heritage instead. Caleb’s name was Caleb Jamal and Tommy’s name … Continue reading →