I read an article in an adoptive newsletter once that said, “You might be a foster or adoptive parent if you have three beautiful daughters and they are all named Jessica.” It really does get confusing when you blend families by adoption and you end up with siblings who have the same or very similar names. Marie over at the Christian Adoption blogs was just talking about this dilemma in her own blended family.

When we adopted our first sibling group, two daughters, we tried to convince them to change their names, just a little. Our oldest daughter happened to have the same name as a cousin who was the... more

You have decided to move ahead with your adoption plans to bring a sibling group into your family. Most of the children in the sibling group have appropriate names, but for one reason or another, one of them will require a name change at the time of the adoption. How will the other children react to that name change?

There are several reasons you might need or want to change the name of one of your children when you complete the adoption process. Some families see choosing a child’s name as a right of passage (sort of) into... more