Thursday, August 30, 2012

Lesbian Couple Challenging Adoption Ban in Michigan

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This article from the Detroit News summarizes the arguments in a case filed in Michigan by a lesbian couple raising three children but barr...
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

US: Exporting Babies

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A reminder from Mirah Riben, who blogs at  Family Preservation Advocate , that the U.S. is both a sending and receiving nation in internati...
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Inequality in Inheritance Rights of Adopted Persons

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I'm teaching Adoption Law this term, and it's always interesting to cover the history of adoption with the students who tend to have...
Sunday, August 26, 2012

Adopting Out the Children of Illegal Immigrants IV

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I wish this wasn't a continuing series, but you can read part I , part II and part III here.  And now another entry, from the Washingt...
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Friday, August 24, 2012

Disney Show Jessie Celebrates Gotcha Day

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I mentioned last year about this time that Disney Channel was debuting a show about Jessie, nanny to a family with 4 children, 3 of whom we...
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Another Adoptive Parent Tells Adoptees How They Should Feel

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A new documentary, Somewhere Between , that follows teen Chinese adoptees, is generating disparate reactions. This New York Times review  de...
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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

My Article Has Been Accepted!

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I am delighted to report that I've found a home for my article, 16 and Pregnant: Minors' Consent to Abortion and Adoption.  It wil...
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Study on Effects of Past Adoption Experiences

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The Australian Institute of Family Studies has just released its final report from a study about the post-adoption service needs of those i...
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Sunday, August 19, 2012

Another International Adoptee Discovers She Isn't A Citizen

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And though she isn't facing deportation, she sues about it! She hasn't won yet, but the Court of Appeals overruled the trial court w...
Friday, August 17, 2012

Pat Robertson: Don't take on adoptees, they're "somebody else's problem"

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Well, here's an interesting one!  All the folks who are sure that the Bible means for them to adopt (James 1:27: Religion that God our F...
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"I wish my mother had aborted me"

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Adoptees are quite familiar to being told, if they offer any critique of adoption, "be grateful that you weren't aborted," or ...
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Thursday, August 16, 2012

Adoption, Destiny and Magical Thinking

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At the NYT Motherlode blog , a topic I've found fascinating enough to post about many, many times (like here and here and here and . ...
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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

One Baby, Two Moms: a Rise in Open Adoption

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From the Wall Street Journal : As Susan Edwards and Scott Cargle last month held their adopted newborn daughter Lydia in the hospital in ...
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Restorative Justice & IA

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From the Korea Times , an opinion piece by a man who has served as a volunteer translator for Korean adoptees reuniting with birth family: ...
Tuesday, August 14, 2012

The Developing World’s Latest Export: Adoptable Children

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From the Independent (UK): There is something very modern about inter-country adoption. No longer are potential adopters confined to the ...
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Monday, August 13, 2012

Conflicts Between Priorities in Adoption Placements

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Kinship care has long been preferred for kids who can't be parented by their biological parents. Why this preference for kinship care? F...
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Sunday, August 12, 2012

Back to School ALREADY?!

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Not only was summer too short, life's too short, too! Yep, starting tomorrow I have an official third grader and sixth grader, which i...
Saturday, August 11, 2012

There ARE No Answers for Adoptees

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An adult adoptee responds to the Huffington Post article I posted yesterday , written by an adoptive parent, about her and her daughter...
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The politics of "colorblind" international adoption

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At the Foreign Policy blog , a piece about adoption from Haiti, with reference to a new film about international adoption: Following the q...
Friday, August 10, 2012

Returning to the Orphanage

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At Huffington Post , an account of a return visit to an adoptee's orphanage in China: One of the cold realities of adopting an older c...
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