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• Adoption in France

  
  Box Turtle Bulletin — Authority: 681
  Gay rights in Europe have different difficulties than in the States. Where here the battle is over legal rights and recognition for couples, European countries tend to place more restrictions on parenting. For example, in France where PACS have been legal since 2006, only heterosexual married couples can adopt. ...
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• Trafficking reports raise heart-wrenching questions for adoptive parents

  
  Pound Pup Legacy Feed — Authority: 505
  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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• A generation fights to reform adoption laws

  
  Legally Kidnapped — Authority: 453
  A generation fights to reform adoption laws Six Korean adoptees filed an appeal with the Anti-corruption and Civil Rights Commission last year to request a probe into irregularities in their adoption documents and possible illegal procedures at local adoption agencies.
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• Trafficking reports raise heart-wrenching questions for adoptive parents

  
  Legally Kidnapped — Authority: 453
  Trafficking reports raise heart-wrenching questions for adoptive parents 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?
  1 day ago

• Adult adoptees speak - Beyond Culture Camps Part 1

  
  Harlow's Monkey — Authority: 112
   The executive summary of the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute study, Beyond Culture Camps: Promoting Healthy Identity Formation in Adoption begins with the quote from one of the studys Korean adoptee participants: I realized I never could change my ethnicity/race. I also developed a pride in being Korean ...
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• “HANCI sold our children abroad” angry parents claim

  
  Pound Pup Legacy Feed — Authority: 505
  By Donstance Koroma  October 9, 2009 /   sierraexpressmedia.com     read more
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• “HANCI sold our children abroad” angry parents claim

  
  Legally Kidnapped — Authority: 453
  “HANCI sold our children abroad” angry parents claim Parents and guardians of children who are reported to have been illegally adopted as orphans and flown abroad continue to maintain their stance that their children were sold abroad and that it was a deal carried out by local NGO ‘Help A Needy Child ...
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• Two arrested in Vietnam for baby trafficking: report

  
  Pound Pup Legacy Feed — Authority: 505
  Police in Vietnam have arrested two people suspected of trafficking 20 babies in the communist country since 2007, a report said Monday.  By Agence France-Presse November 9, 2009 / malaysia.msn.com read more
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• A Copy and Paste Blog from Kelly

  
  My Sister's Jar — Authority: 120
  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 ...
  3 days ago

• New York Times article about new Evan B. Donaldson study

  
  Harlow's Monkey — Authority: 112
  This New York Times article features several fellow adoptee friends! Its great to hear their voices. Adopted from Korea and in Search of Identity As a child, Kim Eun Mi Young hated being different. ...Growing up in Georgia, Kansas and Hawaii, in a military family, shewould date only white teenagers, even when ...
  3 days ago

• Should parents push openness in international adoptions?

  
  this woman's work — Authority: 128
  Skila and Tatjana both asked about openness in international adoptions in regards to my Roundtable post. Specifically, should adoptive parents push for openness? Tatjana said: This is very much the predominant point of view re searching for birth families of internationally adopted children here in NL due to ...
  5 days ago

• Ethiopia Adoption: An Adoptive Father Reflects

  
  From Hope to Reality — Authority: 112
  Rocky and his wife, Suzanne, adopted from Ethiopia through the SC office of Nightlight Christian Adoptions. In this testimony, Rocky reflects on the adoption.
  5 days ago

• Elizabeth Bartholet mourns international adoption slowdown

  
  O Solo Mama — Authority: 459
  On November 6, 2009, Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Bartholet will testify before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights regarding the “Human Rights of Unparented Children and International Adoption Policies” in the Americas. Adoption from Guatemala, Honduras, and Peru will be highlighted. ...
  6 days ago

• What are YOU doing Sunday Afternoon?

  
  My Sister's Jar — Authority: 120
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Preliminary inter-country adoption statistics of the US

  
  Pound Pup Legacy Feed — Authority: 505
  This week preliminary figures for the number of children adopted from abroad were made public. Not surprisingly the downward trend continued, and it is to be expected that in there were at least 5000 inter-country adoptions less in FY 2009 than in the previous year. A big contributor to the decrease is Guatamala, ...
  1 week ago

• 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 ...
  1 week ago

• November 3rd has Come and Gone {sigh}

  
  My Sister's Jar — Authority: 120
  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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• Article Title Unknown

  
  Berries n' Honey — Authority: 130
  Hey adoptive Moms! Do your children have questions that are hard to answer? Have you been waiting half a century for your child to come home? Have you dealt with the nightmare of foster to adopt? Toddler peeing everywhere but the toilet? None of your other friends even know what RAD means? Dont ...
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• Anger grows over adoption scam

  
  Pound Pup Legacy Feed — Authority: 505
  AN Australian parent who unwittingly adopted stolen children from India has accused the federal government of failing to launch a proper investigation into the case and other related child-trafficking issues. By Rory Callinan and Sean Parnell November 4, 2009 / The Australian read more
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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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