Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Birth Father Speaks on Broken Promises

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In my post about promises that induce birth parents to relinquish their children, I mentioned that one of the most frequent false promise in...
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Tuesday, December 1, 2009

China's Zhuang Minority Risks Losing Cultural Distinctiveness

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From ChannelNewsAsia , dateline Nanning, Guangxi Province (my childrens' home province), a short but interesting article about the Zhuan...
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Survey Says . . .

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Finally! The results of the 2007 National Survey of Adoptive Parents have been published, and there are lots of interesting data. The surve...
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Monday, November 30, 2009

"They Will Return To You"

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In American adoption law, it is a fundamental principle that coercion makes consent to an adoption involuntary and therefor ineffective. And...
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Sunday, November 29, 2009

A Touch of China Christmas Tree

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We joined the millions of Americans who put up their Christmas trees over the Thanksgiving holiday. I've always had an eclectic Christm...
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Saturday, November 28, 2009

New Book: Why China Gave Me Two Daughters

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Here's an article in a Dutch newspaper , brought to you in English courtesy of Google Translate (which explains the choppy read), about...
Friday, November 27, 2009

Adoption Apparel Translator

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A funny, snarky post at Racialicious, originally published at iBastard , "translating" some of the slogans popular on clothing f...
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Thursday, November 26, 2009

I Am Thankful, Kids Edition

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Zoe: I am thankful for . . . . . . my birth parents . . . my forever mom . . . God & Jesus . . . scientists . . . heroes in our communi...
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I Am Thankful, Adoption Edition

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I am thankful . . . . . . for the adoptive families who have come before us, who have been honest about their successes and their mistakes, ...
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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

RainBabies

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Tonight the girls and I watched a Scholastic DVD that included the story "Rainbabies." I like the Scholastic DVDs because they f...
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Interesting, Irritating, Idiotic

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Links to three recent articles, all of which are interesting for a variety of reasons, at least one of which is irritating for at least one ...
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Reactions to "Find My Family?"

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Before it aired, I posted about one adoptee/adoptive parent reaction to " Find My Family ," ABC's reality show about adoptio...
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"Foster Kids Abroad Root-Seeking in China"

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From China Daily -- yes, the headline says "foster kids" -- a story about a group of adopted Chinese children returning to visit...
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Monday, November 23, 2009

"How to Say Thanksgiving in Mandarin"

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Scott Simon of NPR, and adoptive father to two girls from China (his oldest is 6), has written the above-titled opinion piece in the Wall St...
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FCC Older Girls Get-Together

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Sunday afternoon we got together with the FCC older child group in our area. The girls range from 6 to 11, and we've known most of them ...
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

More on Feminism & Adoption

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At the Wellesley Centers for Women, from Ellen Herman, author of Kinship By Design: A History of Adoption in the Modern United States , and ...
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

First Tweets

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I was playing around on my laptop while the girls watched a video, and during a slow part they gathered around to see what I was doing. I wa...
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"Find My Family" as Sensationalist Trash or Springboard for Discussion

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Martha Osborne, adopted person and adoptive parent, and the founder of the Rainbow Kids website, has given some good advice in reaction to...
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Friday, November 20, 2009

Anita Tedaldi Goes Global

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Lovely. Anita Tedaldi , who disrupted the adoption of her son, and publicized it on the New York Times Motherlode blog and the Today Show ,...
Thursday, November 19, 2009

Is Adoption a Feminist Issue?

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Dawn from this woman's work has a great post up at Bitch, Adopt-ation: A feminist take on the state of the adoption industry : Adoption ...
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