Saturday, November 22, 2008

Immigrant Visas for Children to be Adopted

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FYI, this article talks about U.S. visa rules for immigrating adopted children, as affected by the Hague Convention. It's on an attorne...
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Thursday, November 20, 2008

Chinese Song From Mulan

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Mei-Ling mentioned liking to hear Chinese nursery songs and the like, and I went to YouTube looking for some. The first thing that came up w...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Poll Results: We're So Cultured!

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I created the poll from 14 Ways to Focus on Culture , and wow, we seem to focus on culture! I've sprinkled some comments below, most of...
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Natural Disasters and Adoption as a Response

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With the slowness of finding permanent families for China's quake orphans, I sometimes hear from people who wish China would make these ...
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Monday, November 17, 2008

Lifebook: Birth Parent Pages

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I've mentioned before that I'm a huge fan of lifebooks -- essentially a scrapbook that covers the time before your child joined you...
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Sunday, November 16, 2008

A Long Way Home: A Glimpse at Transnational Adoption

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A wonderful essay by Molly McCullough, an adult adoptee -- here's a taste, but read the whole thing: As a transnational/transracial ado...
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My Big Fat Greek Adoption

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Harlow's Monkey beat me to it, and gets credit for the great title, though Lisa sent me the link a few days ago: From People Magazine :...

Adoption is Everywhere!

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The girls have decided, now that Halloween is over, that it is time for all things Christmas! (We're prepared to ignore Thanksgiving sin...
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Friday, November 14, 2008

One Child Policy, Research Ethics, and the Undoing of a China Scholar

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Several readers have pointed me to a fascinating article by Steven Mosher that paints a vivid picture of how China's one child policy i...
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Patron Saint of Adopted Children?!

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Who knew? There is actually a patron saint of adopted children. I guess I shouldn't have been surprised, since there are patron saints f...
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Thursday, November 13, 2008

Update on quake orphans in China

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The BBC reports: Only 12 children orphaned by the earthquake that struck China's Sichuan province six months ago have been formally adop...
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Baby Farms in Nigeria

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Reuters reports : Nigerian police said on Thursday they had broken a major baby trafficking ring, arresting a doctor believed to have bought...
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Old & New in China

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I heard two cool segments on NPR this week about music in China. One was about ancient Chinese opera experimenting with jazz fusion, the o...
Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Happy Birthday To Me!!!!

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Yep, today's my birthday -- something I'm trying to ignore since I'm getting so old (midlife crisis, anyone? I'm thinking of...
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Heroes?!???

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No, it's not what you think, a tribute to veterans, though they are all deserving of tribute today. This song is a "tribute" t...
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Monday, November 10, 2008

New Poll: How do you incorporate your child's birth culture in your lives?

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I've taken the suggestions from 14 Ways to Focus on Culture to ask how you bring homeland culture alive for your kids. Notice I'm p...
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New York City?!??!???

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In Zoe's latest version of her birth parent dream sequence, the angel put a dream in her head that her birth parents are going to New Y...
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Saturday, November 8, 2008

Children's Books From the Birth Family's Perspective?

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[My original post title was "Children's Books From the First Family's Perspective," but I was afraid saying "First Fa...
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Friday, November 7, 2008

Ideas for Polls

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You've probably noticed it's been a while since I posted a poll -- I've run out of ideas! Please email me if you have something...
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What's this blog about?

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I understand that people don't come here to read about politics. I've tried to be VERY careful about keeping on topic, even when pe...
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