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• National Adoption Month: Finding a Friendly Agency

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 157
  “Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Family” is a series of conversations and blog posts celebrating National Adoption Month . This post in the series comes from Robyn Harrod, LCSW, Adoption Director of Southern California Foster Family and Adoption Agency: National Adoption Month is an exciting time for ...
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• Trafficking reports raise heart-wrenching questions for adoptive parents

  
  Pound Pup Legacy Feed — Authority: 479
  Accounts of Chinese children being kidnapped, bartered and sold to orphanages have many adopters wondering about their children. Some may try to track down the birth parents -- but then what? By Martha Groves November 11, 2009 / latimes.com read more
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• Celebrate National Adoption Month with HRC’s Family Project

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 157
  This is the first blog post in what we’re calling “Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Family” — a series of conversations and blog posts celebrating National Adoption Month . This post comes from Ellen Kahn, HRC Family Project director: November is National Adoption Month , an opportunity to celebrate ...
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• National Adoption Month: Bittersweet

  
  Blogs — Authority: 160
  This years theme for National Adoption Month--which occurs in November--is "You dont have to be perfect to be a perfect parent" (what a relief--right?). Jokes aside, I should be happy about this special month to celebrate adoption. But Im not, not totally anyway.  Ive written about this over at The Faster Times ...
  6 days ago

• Happy Adoption Month!

  
  A Gift of Hope Adoptions — Authority: 92
  I want to give a sincere congratulations to all of our adoptive families this month, and encouragement to those who are waiting. I know it is tough to wait, and it feels like it will never happen. I assure you that eventually you will be found by the right birth family and that if you are one of our clients we wont ...
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• A Copy and Paste Blog from Kelly

  
  My Sister's Jar — Authority: 121
  Kelly is my blog sister who lives in Tennessee and is also adopting from Colombia with Gladney Center for Adoption.  We both decorated our little Colombian princesses’ rooms in mariposas de la lavanda  (lavender butterflies)!  Her blog this past week could have been written from my heart as much as it was from ...
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• It is so wrong to adopt someone else’s child because you cannot have one of your own.

  
  Anti-Adoption — Authority: 111
  Its so weird how adoption is….everywhere. It seems like no matter where I am, i can’t escape it. Yesterday I was in the parking lot and there is this white woman, white child, and chinese daughter. I looked, …no I stared….is that little girl adopted? Sure she could be a friends daughter, the womans husband ...
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• Adoption: Born in the Federal Prison for Women

  
  O Solo Mama — Authority: 489
  Deborah Jiang Stein has sent me an article she just published with Adoptive Families . It’s called Second Chances , and it details her discovery of being born in the Federal Prison for Women at Alderson, West Virginia. How she found out was . . . whew . . . her a-mom wrote the family attorney trying to change the ...
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• Teens Can Drive You Nuts--Especially When Theyre Not Yours!

  
  Blogs — Authority: 160
  Special Guest Post by Susan Wisdom, LPC author of Stepcoupling Susan uses the terms "biological child" and "biological parent," terms I prefer not to use in my own writing about stepfamilies, since many parents are adoptive parents. However, I think you will find Susans piece and suggestions helpful to your ...
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• Open Adoption Roundtable #9

  
  this woman's work — Authority: 128
  Open Adoption Roundtable #9 This round we’re going to consider one critique of fully open adoptions. Have you ever heard–or perhaps even made–statements like these? “We have medical histories and can share the information we have about their birth parents with our children now. If they feel a need to ...
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• What are YOU doing Sunday Afternoon?

  
  My Sister's Jar — Authority: 121
  Did you know that this coming Sunday is Orphan Sunday?  Did you know that there are 143,000,000 orphans in the world? How big of a number is 143 million?  Here, have a look: It astonished me.   God’s heart is turned to the orphan and so are the hearts of many other men and women doing what they can to ...
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• Q&A with Mei-Ling Hopgood - Lucky Girl

  
  Mother Talkers — Authority: 140
  Mei-Ling Hopgood wrote the new memoir Lucky Girl .  Now based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Hopgood is a journalist as well as mom. She took time during a trip from BA to New York to answer some questions. (Shell be at events Princeton, NJ, NY, Phoenix AZ, and Connecticut in early November ) Q First off, how ...
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• November 3rd has Come and Gone {sigh}

  
  My Sister's Jar — Authority: 121
  If you have followed our eternal adoption saga , you know that I’m a tad sad today.  November 3rd is the last day of the year 2009 that a referral call can be received from Bogota… and your child can be home by Christmas.  Our call did not come today.  This will be Christmas #3 without our baby girl looking ...
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• Bethany Christian services recieves the 2009 Demons in Adoption Award

  
  Anti-Adoption — Authority: 111
  Oh yeah, brings a smile to my face … read all about it here: http://poundpuplegacy.org/node/40708?destination=node%2F40708 Tagged: adoptee, adoptee rights, adoption, Adoption Education, adoption SUCKS, adoptive parents, bethany christian services, demons in adoption award, paybacks a bitch, truth in adoption
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• Finally, a film on Kashmir minus terrorism

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  Mumbai, Nov 3 (IANS) A Kashmiri by origin, Tariq Tapa was tired of films being made on Kashmir that revolved around terrorism. Having studied filmmaking in the US, he finally made his directorial debut at the ongoing Mumbai Film Festival (MFF) with “Zero Bridge” on life and people in state.“In recent times, ...
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• Real real mama

  
  this woman's work — Authority: 128
  That’s what Madison has taken to calling Pennie. She says, “You know, my real real mama.” When she talks about her adoption, she says, “It’s hard to miss your real real mama.” They were talking about adoption on Arthur today (you know, for National Adoption Month and all) and she told me, “Hey! ...
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• Book Review: Lucky Girl by Mei-Ling Hopgood

  
  Mother Talkers — Authority: 140
  Mei-Ling Hopgood s memoir Lucky Girl is about her discovery of and relationship over 10 years with her birth family. In fact, it was refreshing to read an adoption memoir by an adult adoptee. Most, if not all, adoption memoirs Ive read are by adoptive parents. I am not an adoptive parent who is afraid of birth ...
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• New adoption plan by charity Coram strives to keep babies out of the system

  
  Baby Chums — Authority: 566
  Coram’s new adoption plan proposes to place babies with prospective parents within days of being born. Hosting a conference in London today, U.K. charity Coram hopes that its fresh approach to adoption wins new converts at a time when child care systems have come under increased strain. At the root of the ...
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• Embryo Adoption: 7 Questions

  
  Blogs — Authority: 160
  Snowflakes Frozen Embryo Adoption was established in 1997 when its president, attorney Ron Stoddart, was asked to facilitate the open adoption of an embryo. Today, that Snowflake Baby is approaching teenhood. Since then there have been hundred of babies who have been born through the program. Ron Stoddart answered ...
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• The Birthmom Gig

  
  The Story of A Girl — Authority: 120
  
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