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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The discussion on open records and demanding that birth certificates are not only available, but also unaltered and containing the truest information available has be ratcheted up a notch with this story out of the UK about twins who’d been separated at birth meeting as adults, falling in love and marrying.
When Mark and I met, [...]
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Posted in Adoption, Adoption Advocacy, Adoption News, Cambodia, International Adoption, Older Parent Adoption, The United Nations, tagged Beth Kanter, Guatemala adoption, Nigeria, Sharing Foundation, Zambia on January 11, 2008 | 3 Comments »
There are some bits and pieces of international news that I need to pass along today, so that’s where the focus will be …
If Guatemalan adoption is of interest, please see the Guat Adopt Blog for information on the new Central Authority on adoption. They have an address for the office.
If Cambodia holds your heart, [...]
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That pesky thing called life is getting in the way of my blogging at the moment, but I’ll try today to incorporate a bit of one into the other in a way someone other than my mother might find interesting enough to follow through a couple of paragraphs.
Visual aides always help, so there will [...]
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Being a Tuesday and all, I’m thinking it’s time I published a post my mother will read. This is, after all, still my personal blog, and I’ve been ignoring readers who don’t happen to live and breathe adoption and its related issues, but rather think my little kids … who just happen to be adopted [...]
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A comment on yesterday’s blog from JA taking issue with birth parent names on birth certs started a thought process that once again grew out of the box and turned into a post.
Stating that “even if a married woman gives birth to a child fathered by someone who isn’t her husband, the husband’s name [...]
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My house is a mess, I’ve barely noticed that the Indian Ocean off my veranda has been like a swimming pool for two days, the novel I’d been enjoying hasn’t been touched, my kids have been having a great time at Grandma’s house and my husband has gone fishing, all because I’ve been grinding my [...]
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The conversation with Gershom continues, and a plan may be forming to attempt unification among those with adoption in their lives by working together even though we come to this from different directions. Although she generously offered to liaise through email, I’m thinking a public discussion could prompt wider participation and some great ideas.
In her [...]
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Posted in Adoption, Adoption Advocacy, Adoption News, Celebrities, Celebs, Fun, International Adoption, Older Parent Adoption, tagged Steven Wright, Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, George Washington Carver, Aristotle on January 3, 2008 | 19 Comments »
“My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.”
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Continuing the conversation with Gershom from her response to yesterday’s post …
We do walk more common ground than divergent, and I suspect that’s true in more cases than people are willing to admit.
About the Australian system, it does offer options and food for thought. Keeping in mind the horrors from which it developed also gives [...]
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