For some, adoption can confirm the stability and security created by a loving “forever home.” Gone are the days when parents and children have to be biologically related to be family; the modern age recognizes a plethora of atypical family arrangements, and the freedom to construct our families as we choose has been the key to happiness for so many people.
When a new family comes together without the intrinsic bond of biology, however, some parents (and some children) decide they want to make the bond official in another way. Eight-year-old Alessandra was one such girl; her dad of seven years, Leonardo Avila, needed to become “official.”
