By Henry Amador-Batten Many moons ago I caught myself in a moment that felt oddly as natural as it did surreal. I was writing baby shower invitations to celebrate the upcoming birth of my Godson. What should have easily been one of my life’s most joyous moments was casually diluted by the fact that […]
By Henry Amador-Batten Dear America, I am terrified and I am angry and I am coming to terms as to where I should direct those feelings. I want to blame ALL Trump supporters although that doesn’t seem fair. I could perhaps share my anger with the hate mongers, the clearly racist and bigoted of his […]
By Henry Amador-Batten “You’re going to have to come with us sir” was a phrase I had grown accustomed to hearing each and every time I was boarding a flight. This was the late 1980’s and I travelled a lot on business. While mostly from Miami to New York, work often took me to […]
By Henry Amador-Batten “It’s not up to me anymore, it’s up to my supervisor and she’s seriously considering moving him to a different home. I really hope it goes in the other direction but just make sure you come ready to advocate for keeping him.” Those were the words we heard mere days before we were […]
By Henry Amador-Batten There has been much talk recently about “safe places,” especially after the massacre in Orlando. I touched on this topic in a newspaper column I write and the responses I received only served to feed my desire to dive in even deeper. Some people just do not understand how a night club […]
By Henry Amador-Batten Every year for Father’s Day I write. I write like so many gay fathers do about our shared and yet unique experiences. Usually, I write about what it’s like to be raising children in a two father household. I write about what it’s like when a school only has our kids send […]
By Henry Amador-Batten Mother’s Day is here again and in thousands and thousands of gay dad households around the country you will find families navigating the idea of “what does this day mean” in their own unique and special ways. In a 2015 cnsnews.com article by David Crary, he quotes Gary Gates, an expert on […]
By Henry Amador-Batten Having just been placed with a six year old child whom we will eventually be adopting has been an eye-opening and humbling experience. You can “feel” that you are as prepared as you like, but emotionally it is an entirely different story. Adopting a child through the Foster Care system is not […]
By: Henry Amador-Batten As I write on this beautiful crisp and sunny March morning, there are two things that I am immediately grateful for, first is the Sun beating on my face though the sitting room window, it’s long overdue and oh so needed and secondly are the sounds of my husband working in the […]
By Henry Amador I recently shared with you how my husband and I were hoping our adoption search for our second child was nearing its end I wrote that article in December based on a child that I found on our agency’s list of children needing homes and who were already cleared for adoption. His […]
