International Adoption

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• Guatemala pushes for DNA tests of kids adopted in U.S.

  
  Pound Pup Legacy Feed — Authority: 131
  GUATEMALA CITY  - For three years Olga Lopez desperately searched for her baby daughter who was snatched from her home in Guatemala, until her face appeared in government paperwork for an international adoption. By  Sarah Grainger, edited by Eric Beech December 8, 2009 / Reuters read more
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• Breaks my heart

  
  Harlow's Monkey — Authority: 416
  From the Star Tribune A Minneapolis high school teacher was charged with assaulting his1-year-old son after doctors found bruising and fractures -- new andold. He said that he had been stressed at work, depressed and sick with theflu, the complaint said, adding that he was frustrated that he had notbonded with ...
  4 days ago

• Beyond Culture Camps part 3: Culture vs. Racism

  
  Harlow's Monkey — Authority: 416
  November is always one of the craziest months in the Harlows Monkey household. Numerous family birthdays, a holiday, plus gearing up towards the end of the semester (for both me and the kids), plus this year, some added bumps and lumps (some positive, some not-so-much) that all families go through. So I never got to ...
  5 days ago

• Frantic Frenzy

  
  My Sister's Jar — Authority: 119
  As I was eating bon bons on the couch watching my soaps this afternoon I got THE phone call . (OK, if you only knew how that is SO NOT me! It simply sounds inviting to me on days like today.) More like: I was STILL homechooling my boys at 4:15 p.m. today at the kitchen table, when I got THE phone call . The news ...
  6 days ago

• Council of Europe and EC conference aimed at re-trafficking Romanian children again.

  
  Pound Pup Legacy Feed — Authority: 131
  By Brian Douglas (Director RCHF) No one will ever forget the Romanian orphanages of the communist times as many thousands of children were left in the care of a communist regime that simply didn’t care for them. After Communism ended in late 1989, the orphanages remained open for the best part of the next decade. ...
  1 week ago

• Most orphans have a living parent, says charity

  
  Pound Pup Legacy Feed — Authority: 131
  At least four out of five children in orphanages around the world have a living parent, a leading charity says. November 24, 2009 / BBC News In a report, Save the Children says some institutions coerce or trick poor parents to give up their children. As a result, the report says, millions of children are put ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tears & Laughter

  
  My Sister's Jar — Authority: 119
  My life seems to be on the replay cycle right now.  I was reading back to last year’s posts at this time…. I certainly don’t need to write about my events of Thanksgiving week this year… they are EXACTLY the same as last year:  Larisa’s play, Stove Top Stuffing, and three or four hockey games for ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Darya Project

  
  Life with Bubba, Chicky and Nika — Authority: 422
  I am an advocate for Down syndrome. I am an advocate for international adoption. I am an advocate for international adoption of children with Down syndrome. And so is Lydia . Although Lydia is just 11 years old, it seems we have a lot in common. She has two siblings that have Down syndrome ... one biological ...
  2 weeks ago

• Discrimination Against Adoptees

  
  73adoptee - adoption search, reunion and reform — Authority: 399
  On the heels of the recent Evan B. Donaldson study , ABC has posted an article concerning discrimination against adoptees. None of the information in the article will be news to us adoptees, who have been familiar with this for decades. For me it started within my adoptive family. I was always the "adopted" ...
  2 weeks ago

• Briefing by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Michele Bond on National Adoption Day

  
  Pound Pup Legacy Feed — Authority: 131
  Office of the Spokesman Washington, DC November 20, 2009 read more
  2 weeks ago

• Romania: Dont Life the Ban on International Adoption

  
  FAMILY PRESERVATION ADVOCACY — Authority: 134
  Romania should withstand pressure to lift ban on international adoptions Guest Blog Post by RUPERT WOLFE MURRAY,  a documentary filmmaker based in Romania and a supporter of Against Child Trafficking.  His views from Romania are particularly relevant in view of Guatemala lifting its two-year suspension of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Smug arrogance and self-promotion wasnt good enough for just the U.S.

  
  Harlow's Monkey — Authority: 416
  Oh great. Now shes gone international .
  2 weeks ago

• National Adoption Day

  
  Emily, Rich, & Dawit — Authority: 121
  November is National Adoption Month and TODAY is National Adoption Day!To celebrate this important occasion, Arizona opened its court houses on a Saturday to finalize more than 250 families adoptions... including ours!Here we are with the K. family (friends from our local Ethiopian Families support group) who also ...
  2 weeks ago

• Adoptions re-open in Guatemala

  
  Harlow's Monkey — Authority: 416
  Just a quick update, thanks to Sarah who told me last night about this news story. According to the Washington Post , Guatemala is re-opening their international adoption program. They say the "problems" have been resolved. According to the Post, Legal reforms established during the suspension will prevent ...
  2 weeks ago

• Trip to the doc

  
  berries n honey — Authority: 132
  E. was SOOO excited to see the doctor today. He was talking all about it, even up until they called us into the exam room. He kept telling me he was going to say "good morning, doctor". While the doctor and I were talking, however, he was not as thrilled about being there. He kept telling me to not talk to the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Online poetry magazine features Korean adoptees

  
  Harlow's Monkey — Authority: 416
  New online poetry and writing magazine, Asian American Poetry and Writing , has an issue featuring all Korean adoptee writers: New Truths: Writing in the 21st Century by Korean Adoptees . Its beautiful writing and intellectually challenging. Please read it, its free and online and its here .
  3 weeks ago

• ...Not a Commodity

  
  "Neither Here Nor There..." — Authority: 119
  DIANNE DEMPSEYNovember 15, 2009Maggie Millar has a problem with Deborra-Lee Furness work. Supported by her movie star husband, Hugh Jackman, Furness has cranked up a campaign to open up overseas adoption for Australian couples. Part of this campaign has been creating National Adoption Awareness Week, which will be ...
  3 weeks ago

• "Cultural Tourism" - Beyond Culture Camps Part 2

  
  Harlow's Monkey — Authority: 416
  One of the studys limitations is that those adoptees born/adopted inthe late 1970s to 1989 would have had much greater access oropportunity to specialized Korean culture camps. Korean culture campsdid exist back then, and in fact Holt first started their camps in1983. I, as a "2nd wave" adoptee would have been 15 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Poem for National Adoption Month

  
  John Raible Online — Authority: 92
  November is the month of my birth, and the month of my relinquishment. I always find myself thinking more about my birth family during this time of year. I wonder if my birth mother is still alive, and if she is thinking about me.   November also happens to be National Adoption Month. The following poem erupted ...
  3 weeks ago

• Gotcha Day: One Year Ago Today

  
  Life with Bubba, Chicky and Nika — Authority: 422
  One year ago today, Kyle and I sat in a Russian courtroom pleading our case as to why we would make good parents to Addison, a Russian orphan with Down syndrome. Trying to make them understand why we would want a child with Down syndrome was another story. In the end, I think they understood ... and I think ... I ...
  3 weeks ago

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