Friday, April 6, 2012

Karma's a B*tch!

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Do you remember Jade ? She was adopted in Korea by a Dutch diplomat, and then they disrupted the adoption after having two biological childr...
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Thursday, April 5, 2012

Top 25 Adoption Bloggers: Please Vote!

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Last year (wow, has it really been a whole year?!), I was honored to be voted onto the Top 25 Adoption Blogs list by Moms at Circle of ...

The Failure of an Adoptive Family

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The Motherlode blog of the New York Times reacts to Joyce Maynard's announcement of the disruption of her adoption of two children fro...
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Wednesday, April 4, 2012

"The greatest, happiest ending"

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I found a surprise in this article in People Magazine about Mariska Hargitay's adoptions -- a recognition that it is "the greatest...
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The Importance of Post-Adoption Support

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A reminder of the need for post-adoption support (an issue equally important on this side of the pond) from the Guardian , in light of calls...
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Sold into Slavery, then Sold Again into Adoption

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At Women's News Network , a report of a meeting at the U.N. on human trafficking; here's a snippet about Rani Hong, who was sold int...
Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Korean Adoptee Unexpectedly Finds Birth Family

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Interesting story -- because her file said she was abandoned, Chae Haile figured she wouldn't find birth family when she went back to K...
Monday, April 2, 2012

Anti-Adoption Activists Defy Popular Opinion

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From the Chicago Tribune : "Anti-adoption" sounds ludicrous. Who could oppose placing an unwanted child into a loving home? An...
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Contested Adoptions Can Take Years to Resolve

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The Salt Lake Tribune reports about the length of time it takes to resolve contested adoptions in that state: Four years ago, as it retur...
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Sunday, April 1, 2012

Difficulties in Reforming Soviet-Era Orphanages

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The Moscow Times reports on barriers to reforming Soviet-era orphanages: Twenty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, about 371,7...

Does Open Adoption Allow Adoption for Muslims?

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I've posted before about interpretations of Islam that restrict adoption. At the Daily Beast , a report about an organization looking a...
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Saturday, March 31, 2012

Orphan finds his way home using Google Earth

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What a story! Beyond the novelty of ne'erseen shipwrecks and rooftop sunbathers, the venerable bird's-eye map of the world has em...
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Friday, March 30, 2012

Russian Duma to Debate U.S.-Russia Adoption

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From RiaNovosti : An adoption deal between Russia and the United States drafted in the wake of a series of tragic episodes involving Russi...
Thursday, March 29, 2012

Gender Imbalance in China

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From China Daily , a look at improving ratios that are still terribly unbalanced, with not a single mention of the role of the one child pol...
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Mother Reunited With Stolen Child She Was Told Had Died

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A reuniun in the Spanish stolen babies debacle : Manuela Polo is one of hundreds of women who were told their babies died shortly after b...
Wednesday, March 28, 2012

New Directions For the Family Tree

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At NPR's , a panel discussion about nontraditional families, including an adoptive mother in an open adoption, a gay adoptive father in...
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A Look Inside China

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Forty-one awesome photos from around China, published in the Atlantic .  A must-see for China adoptive parents who want to know about modern...
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Child Poverty: Adoption is NOT the Solution

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At Huffington Post , by Dr. Jane Aronson, often called the "Orphan Doctor:" I was with some colleagues today discussing the plig...
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forced adoptions for unwed mothers around the globe

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From Dan Rather at Yahoo News , an article focusing on birth mothers forced or coerced to relinquish babies in Spain, Ireland, Australia, Ca...
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Monday, March 26, 2012

White Adoptive Parents: Keeping Your Children of Color Safe in a Racist World

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At Land of a Gazillion Adoptees , Keum Mee asks important questions about the training, knowledge and competence of white transracially adop...