I have read with great interest the must-read and subsequent comments and want to throw in some recent experience of my own with the lack of attention to issues around adoption. Last fall I submitted an article for Sheila Lintott's edition "Motherhood and Philosophy" in the Wiley- Blackwell series of books "...and Philosophy". In the call for papers she suggested that anyone with an interesting topic might contact the series general editor, Fritz Allhoff, to see if he was interested in it. I emailed him with the suggestion that a volume on adoption would be not only appropriate but would bring out issues that have been pretty much ignored in philosophy. I offered suggestions on many topics, trying to indicate the kinds of issues the volume could address. I was disappointed in his response, to say the least, which was basically: we already have volumes on motherhood and fatherhood, so surely that's enough to do with parenting. I didn't pursue it, partly because of time and mostly because it seemed so clear that he was not seeing at all what kinds of issues adoption can entail, nor what kinds of philosophical discussions could be had. I support Shelley's suggestion that we might do a "difficult discussion" around adoption, although I would like to see it not be limited to the issues already raised. My own concerns as an adoptive mother of two older siblings who were severely abused are quite different. Either way, I would strongly support any moves in the direction of bringing adoption issues of many types into academic view. Melissa Burchard