Friday, May 11, 2012

Motherhood for an Adoptee a Priceless Bond

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A must-read for this Mother's Day weekend, a Korean adoptee writes movingly about adoption and motherhood and her son's birth.  ALL...
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Romney on Gay Adoption

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I try to avoid politics, but can't here, where it's squarely about adoption! From ABC News : Mitt Romney has consistently opposed ...
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Thursday, May 10, 2012

Another Adoptee Faces Deportation

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Joining  Joao Herbert , Matthew Sherer , John Gaul , Tara Ammons Cohen , Tatiana Mitrohina , Jennifer Haynes , Seo , and many, many ...
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International Adoptions Plummet

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Nothing really new in this story , including the obligatory quote from Elizabeth Bartholet who has never seen an adoption restriction she ap...
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Utah Adoption Council President Resigns Over Birth Fathers' Rights

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From KSL TV in Utah: The president of the Utah Adoption Council resigned Thursday amid controversy over claims the council is working to ...
Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Top 10 Asian Children's Books Around Food

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At JadeLuckClub , an top ten list, introduced as follows: The pleasures of eating and how food brings people together. This is a concept t...
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The Avengers Make Fun of Adoption

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This movie isn't on our watch list -- my girls deem it too scary!  But now I have another reason not to see it. At 73adoptee , Triona a...
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"We'll eat you up. We love you so."

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Image from My Green Vermont I saw the report of Maurice Sendak's death this morning, and was immediately thrust back in time to whe...
Monday, May 7, 2012

Would you adopt Chardonnay or Chrystal?

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This is a truly awful story in the Mail (UK), but not awful for the reason the author seems to think -- she writes about how terrible it is...
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A Day For Forgotten Moms of Korean Adoptees

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From the Wall Street Journal : May is a month of quasi-holidays in South Korea. Saturday was Children’s Day and Tuesday is Parents Day. T...
Sunday, May 6, 2012

Finding Your Roots, Ancestry & Blank Pages

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I just watched PBS' Finding Your Roots with my kids. I wasn't planning to, but they came in on the Ellis Island segment, and Maya...
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Saturday, May 5, 2012

"I Found My Biological Parents and Wish I Hadn't"

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From the New York Times Magazine , a rumination on adoption and reunion: I was young, maybe 4, when I learned where babies came from. I wa...
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Friday, May 4, 2012

India Supreme Court Asked to Suspend IA

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From FirstPost.India , under the headline, Baby Business?: Pune based NGOs ‘Sakhi’ and ‘Advait Foundation’ had moved the apex court saying...

Outrage Over Agency's Bankruptcy

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As I was reading this article , I kept thinking, "Why do people doubt that adoption is a business? These parents are outraged when the ...

E.J. Graff: Don't Adopt From Ethiopia

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E.J. Graff weighs in on the recent WSJ story about the boom in Ethiopian adoption, which focused on the adoption of Melesech, a little gir...
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Thursday, May 3, 2012

Review: A Brand New Life

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A reader, who sometimes comments as Chinazhoumom, contacted me after watching this movie, about a Korean orphanage, with her daughter.  I a...
Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Temperament: Do You and Your Child(ren) "Fit"?

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Back in 2009, I attended a parenting session at Chinese Heritage Camp that dealt with the challenges of building emotional connections i...

International Adoption: The American Dream?

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That's the title of an lengthy article in the St. Petersburg Times , addressing adoption in and from Russia, though it's a a bit opa...
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Grace Lin Recommends Asian-American Books for Kids

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At PBSParents , Grace Lin recommends 10 of her favorite books (not authored by her!) about/for Asian-American kids, introducing them with a ...

Ten Things

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There are so many little things I've been meaning to blog about, none of which seemed worthy of a whole post, or if it does seem worthy,...