Thursday, February 9, 2012

Early Childhood Adversity & Toxic Stress

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Here's a report from the American Academy of Pediatrics that adoptive parents might find relevant to their children's early years: E...
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China: Banning Names That Identify Orphans

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Hmmm, I thought China had done this a couple of years ago, but China Daily reports a new rule that bans names that identify a child as an o...
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Wednesday, February 8, 2012

"I think she's adopted. . ."

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We met an adorable African-American 2-year-old named Lila last night at a restaurant -- she was quite talkative and shared her name and age ...
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Infants as Orphanage Loss Leaders

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We're all familiar with the retail concept of the loss leader , right?  If you've ever been led into a store by that advertisement o...
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Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Understanding In-Country Opposition to Intercountry Adoption

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Thought-provoking and reflective piece at the Mennonite Weekly Review : It’s been just more than two years since a magnitude-7 earthquake ...
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Monday, February 6, 2012

Israel: Weighing Adopted Persons Rights v. Birth Parents Rights

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This article in the Jerusalem Post synopsizes a thoughtful opinion from a family court judge, weighing the adopted person's right to kn...
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Laos: Adoption Trafficking Investigation

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Here's a news report about a retired official investigated for selling babies into international adoption: Laos is investigating a re...
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Sunday, February 5, 2012

Madonna, Child Saver

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video platform video management video solutions video player Madonna was interviewed by Anderson Cooper on Thursday; in case you mis...
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Montana Ranch Last Stop for Adopted Kids

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I posted before about this ranch in Montana where adopted teens with FASD and/or RAD are sent.  Here's another story , some interesting...
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Saturday, February 4, 2012

Chinese New Year, Chinese School Edition

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As the Mistress of Ceremonies reminded us at the beginning of Chinese School's New Year celebration, Chinese New Year lasts 15 days!  ...
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Friday, February 3, 2012

Still No Adoptions from Vietnam to U.S.

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The State Department has announced that,  despite Vietnam's ratification of the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption, the U.S. wil...
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Thursday, February 2, 2012

Twins, Adopted Separately, Reunited

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Two girls adopted from Indonesia to Sweden discover they are twins : Non-identical twins Emilie Falk and Lin Backman - strangers until las...
Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Wealthy Man Adopts His Adult Girlfriend

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Well, isn't this a special use of adoption ?!  A polo tycoon has adopted his girlfriend so that he can hide his assets from the family o...
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Adopting Out the Children of Illegal Immigrants III

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ABCNews has done a piece on the Missouri case I blogged about here and here and here , where a mother who was in the U.S. illegally was s...

Willful Blindness: Avoiding the Truth of Corruption

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At Rh Reality Check , a review of Erin Siegal's book, Finding Fernanda , about corruption, trafficking and child adoption in Guatemalan ...
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Adoption as a Political Tool in Russia

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At Foreign Policy Blog , a post about how international adoption plays as a political tool in Russian domestic politics: On January 18, Ru...
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Adoption & Abuse

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Sometimes it's HARD to decide what to blog about.  My usual problem is not finding something to post about, but in deciding what NOT to ...
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Special Needs Adoption From China

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The Chicago Tribune has a story today on China's Waiting Child program: When Megan and Keith Nakamoto started the China adoption proc...
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Monday, January 30, 2012

Ethnic Identity Formation in Chinese Adoptees

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A Harvard student has started a blog to let us follow along as she researches and writes her senior thesis on ethnic identity formation in ...
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Asian American Dolls

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And I mean real dolls -- not calling Asian American girls and women dolls, which is completely yuck . And now weird guys with an Asian fetis...
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