Saturday, January 14, 2012

Orphan still fighting effects of Vietnam War

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From the BBC , a story about one of the Vietnam babylift orphans (still called an orphan in the headline after adoption decades before?!): ...
Friday, January 13, 2012

Children of Haiti: 2 Years Later

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CBSThisMorning did a piece on Haiti and adoption today.  Watch the 6.33 minut...
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Thursday, January 12, 2012

"Where would I sit on the bus, mommy?"

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I've mentioned before that each year around Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day my kids always have tons of questions about race, racism an...
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Biggest Misperception of UNICEF

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At the Council on Foreign Relations, Dr. Susan Bissell, Associate Director and Programmes Chief Child Protection, UNICEF , answers questions...
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Artyom Finally Finds New Home

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The Shelbyville (TN) Times-Gazette reports: Artyom Savelyev, the boy sent back to Russia by his adopted mother from Shelbyville in 2010, ...
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

The Existing Indian Family Doctrine

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There are obviously strong feelings in a difficult case, like the one I posted about , where a child who spent 2 years with adoptive parents...
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Monday, January 9, 2012

Birth Father Wins Adoption Battle

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CNN reports on the role of the Indian Child Welfare Act in the return of 2-year-old Veronica to her birth father, after the adoptive parent...
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Rock Center: Haitian Adoption Story Tonight

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NBC's Rock Center is doing a report tonight about adoption after the earthquake in Haiti.  I won't have a chance to catch it, but wa...

Anti-Huntsman Ad Hits Home for Adoptive Families

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This is the first piece I've seen addressing adoptive parents' reaction to the anti-Huntsman video I posted: Presidential politi...
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Saturday, January 7, 2012

Connecting to Culture Through Food

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The Indianapolis Star has an article about adoptive parents connecting to adopted children's home cultures through food, with lots of a...
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Friday, January 6, 2012

Huntsman responds to video

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Here's Jon Huntsman's response to the video claiming him to be some kind of Manchurian candidate for speaking Chinese and having a...
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Adoption from China Incompatible with American Values?

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Lord, what a bizarre video!  Thanks to Reena, who linked to it in the comments to the De-Americanizing Asian Americans post, we can see w...
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Competitive Adoption Mothering

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Does this comment from Terra Trevor, author of Pushing Up the Sky , ring true? Most of all, I'm wondering, when did writing about mot...
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Thursday, January 5, 2012

It Came from CyberSpace: An Epidemic of Epic Proportions!

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The headlines are alarming:  "threat to adopted children;" "lives turned upside down;" "adopted kids at risk....
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De-Americanizing Asian Americans

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At the Huffington Post , law professor Bill Ong Hing writes about the "image of people of color with immigrant roots as perpetual forei...
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Irregular Adoption/Gray Identity in China

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From China Daily , a story of an "irregular" adoption: Wu Tiansheng rushed to pick up an empty soft-drink bottle a passer-by dro...
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"Brown Babies" from Germany

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At the Louisiana Times , an interesting story about the mixed-race offspring of German women & African-American soldiers, many placed fo...
Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Adoptee Language Study Offers Insight into Language Acquisition

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From the Boston Globe : As Andy Ross learned to speak English, he progressed from simple word combinations like “Andy shoe’’ to the more c...
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Dismantling the Theological/Scriptural Bases of the Christian Adoption Movement

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David Smolin (whose work I've cited here and here and here ) has a new law review article coming out: Of Orphans & Adoption, Pare...
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Monday, January 2, 2012

Guatemalan Adoptee Returns to Work With Children

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From the Nova Scotia Herald News , the story of a teen adoptee from Guatemala who has returned to Guatemala many times to work in orphanages...
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