Step up for The Sharing Foundation

Not much time on this one, so I’m just cutting and pasting:
We have 24 hours to Turn $10 to $50K for the Sharing Foundation!
Posted by: “Beth” beth@bethkanter.org harry_sarak
Date: Wed Jan 30, 2008 6:54 am ((PST))
If you’ve already donated, thank you. We have a little more than [...]

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What the hell is wrong with people?

Maybe it’s because I’m not feeling well this week that the news seems to be all snotty and headache-inducing. Does my miserable cold rule the world, or does the miserable world make my cold feel worse? Mox nix, as the truly jaded would suggest … or those with as nasty a bug as I’ve been [...]

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Gay backlash and Presidential candidates

Back in the days when I was still working for Adoption dot com, when a new and enthusiastic editor carved out yet another blog for me after noting my news-houndyishness and created the “News” blog, word came down from On High that I should take on the task of examining Presidential candidates and their positions [...]

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Ann Fessler, Xinran, and other news

We’re getting close to the end of the month, so I’ll pass along some bits of adoption-related information I’ve been collecting lately, starting with Ann Fessler and Melissa Weiler Gerber on the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
With no access to safe, legal abortions, an estimated 250,000 to one million women each year resorted to [...]

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Law suits and open records … a question

I mentioned in a news roundup post a few days back a story about a Canadian woman who had slapped her elderly adoptive mother with a lawsuit claiming her adoption had been conducted under fraudulent circumstance and that she had suffered “emotionally and financially” because of it.
It is back in the news in an [...]

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Adopt a fetus (just like a cow, wow!), and adoptee rights in NJ

In what appears to be a gee-whiz-why-didn’t-someone-think-of-this-ages-ago, forehead-slapping moment, a writer for a previously undiscovered (by me) online publication out of Canada has presented what she sees as THE solution to “a large portion of the abortion problem”.
Ready for it?
Transoption!
And it works like this:
There are women who find themselves pregnant when they don’t want [...]

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ArtRage: Vanessa Beecroft, “Art Star”, and the Sudanese Twins

It’s no surprise that the adoption world is easily offended when babies are used as props, since a good part of the debate that fumes mightily has everything to do with children posed as possessions to be wrangled over. But it could be argued that kids are not only “property” in the yours, mine and [...]

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Orphans, Ethanol, Kashmir, Korczak and Jong

Reading the news this morning has been a bit like trying to study individual players’ techniques and philosophies of tennis while watching four courts of Wimbledon play all at the same time; there’s lots going on, it’s all related to issues that touch adoption, but the range is huge and the approaches are all over [...]

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Let’s talk about China

I’ve been writing about international adoption for a few years now and have to admit that I have never quite managed to get a handle on prevailing attitudes toward adoption from China. Some might suggest that this is a result of obstinacy on my part arising from the fact that I adopted from Cambodia and [...]

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Corporal punishment or murder: Too close to call?

“You don’t know you’ve crossed the line until you get accused of crossing the line.”
That right there is a line crossed, as far as I’m concerned.
It came from the mouth of a guy named Jeffrey T. Schwartz in defense of one Cesar Rodriquez.
Whether Cesar Rodriguez, who is accused of beatings and abusive behavior that killed [...]

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