Showing posts with label preference for boys. Show all posts
Showing posts with label preference for boys. Show all posts
Monday, August 24, 2009

Have you REALLY told her she's adopted?

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In the old days , social workers advised adoptive parents to keep the adoption a secret. The conventional wisdom today is that children need...
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Friday, August 14, 2009

Adoption Goes to School ALREADY

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I can't say that I'm surprised that Zoe is already drawing and writing about her birth family at school. Yesterday she only had a ...
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Official Indifference to the Lost Boys of China

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Thanks to Chinazhoumom for the link : Whenever Deng Huidong sees a little boy around 3 years of age, she can't help but wonder if he...
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Friday, August 7, 2009

Huge costs of raising sons force Chinese parents to pray for daughters

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From the Taiwan Sun , dateline Shanghai. a story with a promising premise, that on closer reading has "ick" written all over it: T...
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Saturday, August 1, 2009

Summer Re-Runs: The adoption story

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We're nearing the blog's one-year anniversary, and I'm feeling a little nostalgic. I thought I'd re-run some early posts wh...
Thursday, June 11, 2009

"Girls are inferior . . . "

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I wish I had kept track from the beginning of how many "they hate girls in China" and/or "your girls are so lucky" and/o...
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Friday, June 5, 2009

China's Excess Males, Bride Prices & the Commodification of Women

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In response to this Wall Street Journal article about the male/female ratio in China leading to high bride prices, and scams by runaway bri...
Sunday, May 17, 2009

Adoption Book List

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OK, here's my ultimate adoption book list! I've mentioned that I'm pretty OCD about adoption books for kids, right? Well, we act...
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