Technically everyone shall have birth father but not everyone knows their birth father. Some people have different fathers, such as stepfather, adoptive father, foster father and so on. But how did the idea of “Father’s Day” get started? In 1909, John B. Dobb wanted to express her wish to delicate a day who memorize her father, William Jackson Smart, who raised his six children after his wife died. Then she proposed to her pastor that fathers should have similar holiday honoring them. After some work, finally the 1st Father’s Day celebration was held on June 19, 1910 in USA. Lots of countries then followed to designate a date for Father’s Day celebration. In Taiwan, the Father’s Day Celebration is held on August 8 of every year. This day was actually suggested by some people in Shanghai to express their gratitude to the families which lost fathers during War of Resistance Against Japan (1937-1945). In Mandarin, the pronunciation of number 8 “ba” is very sim...
photo by Matthew Day Adoption has long-term impacts on three parties, relinquishing side, adopting side and adopted children. Each party goes through their own unique journey. Hallee Randall, a typical seventh-grader teenage girl, wrote an essay ( Award-Winning Essay ) entitled “Living Life With Questions About Adoption”, which caught many people’s attention. In her essay, she, like lots of adopted children, has lots of wonders around her adoption, such as the reason why her birth mother placed her for adoption, what her life would be without her adoptive family, what if she likes her birth family more than her adoptive family after reunion and so on. After lots of “what if”, she decides not to search for her birth family at the moment. As she mentions: “But for a kid, we think that ‘what if’ means that it is going to happen and then we get stressed and worried. I think on the Brightside of things. If I found her and then I started talking with her, then maybe she co...
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