Sunday, May 15, 2011

Adopted Twins Return to Russia for Homeland Tour

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Now 18, and adopted at age 2, twins Jessica and Jennifer Allen return to Russia : For the children of a Moscow orphanage, it was a glimpse ...
Friday, May 13, 2011

Follow-Up Article from Caixin on Trafficking by Family Planning Officials

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Caixin Magazine , Beijing, has published another article about the family planning officials taking over-quota children with more details ab...

Blogger Problems

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Blogger is having problems, so they have removed all posts since Wednesday.  That explains why you haven't been able to find the last fe...
Thursday, May 12, 2011

China Birth Parents Sue to Find U.S. Adopted Son

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From Global Times : A father is suing an adoption center in Jiangsu Province to help him contact his lost son adopted by an American family...
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The Parenting Dilemmas of Transracial Adoption

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From NPR's Talk of the Nation : It's common for adopted children to grapple with questions about where they come from and how they ...
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Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Most American of Americans

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Today I had a really awesome experience -- I got to be the keynote speaker at a naturalization ceremony !  One of my former students is an i...
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I Will Honor Her

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At Bluegrass Moms , on honoring Chinese birth mothers: “Can you imagine that someone just threw her away?” The someone they were referring ...
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IA & Language Development

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Helpful post from a pediatric speech-language therapist and adoptive mom, giving guidelines for when it's time to seek professional spe...
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

New Report of Family Planning Officials Taking Children in China

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In 2009, the LA Times reported family planning officials in Guizhou Province confiscated over-quota children and sent them to the local orp...
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Monday, May 9, 2011

Adam Pertman on Post-Adoption Services

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In the Christian Science Monitor , Adam Pertman, executive director of the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute and author of Adoption Natio...
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China Adoption: Discrepancies in Statistics

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Pound Pup Legacy posts about a discrepancy of 1, 618 children between what China reports as having sent abroad for adoption and what receiv...
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Jolie Nervous About Adoption Themes in Kung Fu Panda 2

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From Yahoo News : Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie has revealed that she was nervous about how her adopted children would react to new anim...
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Sunday, May 8, 2011

Happy Mothers' Day!

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We had a great Mothers' Day, doing practically nothing!  That was a great relief after an EXTREMELY busy Saturday of helping my mom move...
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Saturday, May 7, 2011

Happy Other's Day

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No, that's not a typo.  Officially, the Saturday before Mother's Day is Birth Mother's Day .  I understand that the intention wa...
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Friday, May 6, 2011

Should Adoption be a Reproductive Right?

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Hmmm, from the Huffington Post , an attempt to link abortion and adoption from a different direction: Many people assume, and anti-abortio...
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Korea: Single Moms' Day

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From the Korean newspaper The Hankyoreh (English edition): May 11 is “Adoption Day.” The government created the day in 2006 to activate fo...
Thursday, May 5, 2011

Three Mothers

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From Shannon , writing at BlogHer , an emotional recounting of her daughter's baptism and her daughter's first mother's particip...
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Wednesday, May 4, 2011

'What's political about adoption?'

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In opining on a bill introduced in the Texas Legislature to allow a "Choose Life" license plate, the pundit chides a legislator wh...

"The other side of adoption"

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From the Sequim Gazette , a very interesting story about returning to Korea to meet birth parents and a project to collect letters from Kore...
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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Role of Asian Americans in the Civil War

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So I'm sharing something I just learned about for AAPI Heritage Month -- from Voice of America : Many people would be surprised to know...