Monday, May 31, 2010

Maya's Poem: Feelings Come to Me

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Feelings Come to Me Sadness comes to me because I couldn't stay forever Loneliness comes to me because I'm different & feel le...
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Zoe's Poem: Whole Heart

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Grown in My Heart's new adoption carnival asks for original poems about adoption.  Here's Zoe's entry: Whole Heart There is...
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White Mind

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Thanks to Mama C who posted a link on facebook, here's an interesting take on white privilege in children's literature from childre...
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Sunday, May 30, 2010

Asian American Hero: Hazel Ying Lee

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AAPI Heritage Month is coming to an end, so tonight the girls and I watched A Brief Flight , a documentary about Hazel Ying Lee and the WASP...
Saturday, May 29, 2010

Kids Say the Darndest Things

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A bit of frivolity for the weekend -- Art Linkletter , TV host of Kids Say the Darndest Things , passed away Wednesday at age 97.  In his ho...
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Friday, May 28, 2010

I Feel Your Pain -- But Only If We Are the Same Race

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A new study out of Italy, reported by CNN , says: Humans are hardwired to feel another person's pain. But they may feel less innate emp...
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Needy Parents?!

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OK, I didn't get past the first paragraph of this article about international adoption: Adopting a child especially through internati...
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Ten Facts. . .

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. . . You May Not Know About Asian American History Jen Feng of Reappropriate (a really terrific blog, btw) blogs at Change.org's Rac...
Thursday, May 27, 2010

Adoption-Competent Therapists

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A great factsheet from Minnesota Adopt , Adoption-Competent Therapist Traits , introduced as follows: The need for adoption-competent menta...
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When is it too much?

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I've been thinking about this for quite a while now -- we all know that it is perfectly normal for adopted kids to think about their bir...
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Sandwiched

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Ah, the sandwich generation -- those of us parenting young children and helping elderly parents at the same time.  Since adoptive parents ar...
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Crash Course in Transracial Adoption

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Great post by John Raible , offering a crash course in transracial adoption: Here, free of charge, is a Crash Course for transracial adopt...
Monday, May 24, 2010

U.S. Parents Duped by Indian Agency

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From the Economic Times of India : US-based Desiree and David Smolin were elated when they adopted two girls from Hyderabad. But their happ...
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Transracial Adoption & the Imperfect Parent

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Interesting post from Jana Wolff, author of Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother , and a white adoptive parent of a son who is African-Ame...
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Saturday, May 22, 2010

Watch

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I've shared stories from Tai Dong Huai before ( here , here , here , and here ) -- she was adopted from China and writes great short pie...
Friday, May 21, 2010

Responding to John Seabrook

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At the Transracial Korean Adoptee Nexus , there's a great conversation going on in the comments in reaction to John Seabrook's NPR i...
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Discount Babies

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That's the title of a piece in the Economist about price sensitivity in adoption: The market is not politically correct. It often assi...
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International Surrogacy Replacing International Adoption

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From RHRealityCheck, Human Rights and the Business of Reproduction: Surrogacy Replacing International Adoption from Guatemala : Inter-coun...

Podcast: International Adoption & Family Difference

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Click here to listen to the podcast of Think: International Adoption & Family Difference, which I am proud to say comes from my local N...
Thursday, May 20, 2010

Birth Parents Demand Children's Return

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From All-Africa News , a story out of Sierra Leone: Aggrieved parents whose children were adopted by American-based Main Adoption Placement...
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