Posted in Adoption, Adoption Advocacy, Children, Family, International Adoption, Older Parent Adoption, Older women, orphans, tagged unfaithful husbands, infidelity, healing on June 1, 2008 | 17 Comments »
I must be beginning to heal … or, at least for today I’ve managed to work up a good head of indignation at the betrayal that has brought the end of my marriage.
One reason for breaking our family, out of the very few that my husband has managed to share with me, is that I [...]
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I had an interesting email in response to the post of the other day, “Gay backlash and presidential candidates” that included these questions:
In your years of writing for adoption dot com, did the company’s anti-gay stance rub off on you?
Were you censored?
To answer the second question first: yes, I was censored. One post early [...]
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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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Posted in Adoption, Adoption Advocacy, Adoption News, Cambodia, International Adoption, The United Nations, tagged Cambodia, Channel 4, China adoptions, Darfur, Mia Farrow, Olympics, Reporters Without Borders, Sudan on January 22, 2008 | 8 Comments »
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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“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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Posted in Adoption, Adoption Advocacy, Adoption News, International Adoption, The USA from the outside in, The United Nations, tagged AIDS, Kenya, orphans, United Nations, USAID, Zimbabwe on January 20, 2008 | 9 Comments »
How many mornings start off with a sense of despair as I open my computer to learn what has happened around the planet as I slept the night away peacefully in the bosom of my beautiful little family? Far too many.
The world is for more people than not a terrible place of unimaginable pain and [...]
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The Guttmacher Institute released its latest report on abortion numbers in the US last week, and because they are down to the lowest rate since 1974, the report is getting press.
The latest figures are from 2005, and the study found a 25 percent drop from an all-time high of 1.6 million in 1990, although still [...]
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Posted in Adoption, Adoption Advocacy, Adoption News, International Adoption, tagged China, Guatemala adoption, mental illness, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Zimbabwe on January 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Starting with Guatemala and the ever-shifting adoption sands there, Kelly from GuatAdopt is reporting that the new government has already commenced replacing some members of the Central Adoption Authority with new appointments.
Good? Bad? Neutral? Who knows? But you can follow the story on the site.
I have not before seen news on issues of women [...]
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Although I’m excited as anything about the climate of cooperation here between individuals as representatives of the various views and opinions on adoption … and fully intend to keep this up all the way through the Adoptee Rights Protest in July and beyond … I have been neglecting some threads I was covering weekly when [...]
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The story I wrote about yesterday out of the UK on one consequence of inaccessible birth information has prompted much attention across the adoption world.
While my contribution to the discussion prompted by this story in the Telegraph was short and general, one made by Robin Harritt, a British adoptee who has been working for adoptee [...]
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