I contacted the Department of Social Services in San Luis Obispo and inquired about adopting a school aged child. Could a single man adopt?
I enrolled in courses provided by the Department to educate myself on issues surrounding adopting a child from foster care. I knew being single, and being an educator, that I could not manage a younger child. Following my completion of the courses I waited…and waited…and waited. It seemed as if the social worker assigned to assist me in finding a child had forgotten about me. By chance in the supermarket, I bumped into the person who taught the course I had completed several months earlier. No more than a week later, I was viewing a videotape of the boy who would become my son. For whatever reason, something about my future son made an impression on me in the video. It was time to meet this devilish looking boy. At our initial meeting, he could not have appeared less interested. He occupied his time maneuvering his remote control car and paying no attention to me. He did however take time to ask the social worker, “Is this my new Dad?” At our second visit I took him to the beach and wa
