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• Adoption Journey to Lily Mei

  
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  Happy Mother’s Day to all the Mothers out there and to all those waiting to become Mothers! May your day be as special as all of you! Feeling blessed and nostalgic today and I look back on the details surrounding the adoption of our beautiful daughter two years ago. I have created adoption albums, adoption memory ...
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• of reunions, clarification, and closure

  
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  Maybe you noticed, I am all in a tither about adoption stuff lately. No?  Oh. Okay, forget I said anything. I shared the story of my little sister, Tina,   reuniting with her daughter  last summer. The beauty and restoration found in their story defies my ability to describe beauty and restoration. Their story ...
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• The Biggest Challenges Facing the Evangelical Orphan/Adoption Movement

  
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  Far be it from me to say that the orphan care movement has a PR problem, but if my experience is common, then they just might. I attended the big … [ visit site to read more ]
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• Decision to deprive adoptive U.S. family of parental rights too soft - Dolgov

  
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  Decision to deprive adoptive U.S. family of parental rights too soft - Dolgov Moscow welcomes an American court ruling requiring that the former adoptive parents of Russian boy Ivan Skorobogatov and his twin sister Dasha, be deprived of their parental rights.
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• An Elderly Widow and Her Ethiopian Son

  
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  Veteran journalist Marilyn Berger is not by nature an impulsive person. Her friends describe her as "measured," "very thoughtful," "an intellectual." Yet Berger, now 74, has fallen deeply, passionately -- and instantly -- in love twice in her life, with two strong-willed males who could not be more different from each ...
  2 weeks ago

• Activists call for tighter laws on adoption

  
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    Activists have called for the amendment of the Children’s Act to include rules and guidelines on legal guardianship. By Carol Natukunda May 6, 2013 / NewVision CHILD rights activists want the Government to halt issuance of legal guardianship orders to anyone seeking adoption, arguing that it has been ...
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• ethics in adoption

  
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  Birth culture matters. Biological connections matter.  Respecting and caring for the materially poor should matter a whole lot to each of us. Adoption can be beautiful and redemptive and even quite necessary at times.  Discussion and dialog about the unethical things happening is hugely important - we cannot look ...
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• Evangelical trafficking? A guest post by Caleb David

  
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  L ast week a fast and furious online exchange broke out over the Mother Jones article “Orphan Fever: The Evangelical Movement’s Adoption Obsession.” Authored by Kathryn Joyce the piece generated responses from two high profile writers, Jonathan Merritt and Ed Stetzer . Joyce’s article is based on a ...
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• Surrendering to Adoption

  
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  Shonda Rhimes and daughter Harper Did you know that Shonda Rhimes, creator of the TV shows Grey’s Anatomy , Private Practice … [ visit site to read more ]
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• The Evangelical Christian adoption movement: The orphan crisis that wasnt

  
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  Evangelical Christians are adopting children in large numbers - but are they doing more harm than good? By Jill Filipovic May 1, 2013 / aljezeera.com read more
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• Madonna: Humanitarian Diva? (And How Not To Do Good.)

  
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  Earlier this month, Madonna visited Malawi with her children, and, though she’d requested to meet with President Joyce Banda, she didn’t get to see her nor received any sort of special treatment from the government. And apparently, upon leaving the country, Madonna and her children had to go through the ordinary ...
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• MARTINA’S LUCK

  
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  “At the dog pound in Constanta a dog neutered by your association is being held”…these were the words the woman at the other end of the line told us. “The tag from the dog’s ear is for sure from Save the Dogs”. The lady – being certain that in that place, which is more like a [...]
  3 weeks ago

• STUCK.

  
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  There is a common misconception that international adoption is on the rise. This may be from widely publicized celebrities adopting overseas or the fact that transracial families stick out in a crowd. But in fact, there has been a 60% decline in international adoptions since 2004 which is proven with the records that ...
  3 weeks ago

• Sneak Peek - Little William is home...

  
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  Set your DVRs - The little couple and their recently expanded family are back on TV.  Bill and Jen will appear on Katie Couric this Friday, April 26, and their regular series premiers with back-to-back episodes on Tuesday, April 30.   The popular couple found their son and brought him home with the help of ...
  3 weeks ago

• love is what you do ~ linking you

  
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  Hill Tribers is an organization Ive long admired. They are doing beautiful, life-giving and life-honoring relationship based work with refugees in Texas.  I plan to visit them and hug some necks this fall when I am a faux Texan for a few months.  J.R. asked if Id write a piece for her site.  I agreed.  I am ...
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• Looking for Gu Cheng Qian and Gu Cheng Wen (intercountry adoption from China)

  
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  I am looking for the adoptive parents of Gu Cheng Qian, girl, whose finding ad says she was born on April 16, 2004 and found on June 8, 2004 at the home of Mr. Lu Xiande, Tianxi Village, Jiaoxi town, Zhenyuan county, Guizhou province. It this case, Mr. Lu Xiande is actually the Chinese father of the child. The other ...
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• Monday Morning Mind Dump…

  
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  Yesterday was a super long day, but a really good one It started off with some MC leader training Really excited to see more and more people stepping up to get involved and wanting to be leaders at Revolution One of our big prayers is that by January, our MC’s will double from 10 to 20 We continued our ...
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• Moroccan adoption law change leaves foreigners in limbo

  
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  AFP, Rabat / alarabiya.net April 21, 2013 For more than a year Yassamane and Eric have been waiting to adopt a child in Morocco. But a decision to tighten the adoption law has thrown the whole process into doubt, leaving dozens of hopeful foreign couples in limbo. read more
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• More on doing no harm

  
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  Linking you to an-   Important post on adoption ethics.  (I read this post more than a year ago and have thought of it multiple times. It is so well done.) Excerpt: And speaking of regret ... I know that relinquishing a child for adoption is a lifelong decision with lifelong ramifications for both ...
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• Nightmares are dreams too......this is my true story

  
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  I was born in India but I do not know my actual birth date. I always felt strongly and have fleeting memories that I was well loved and cared for in the early part of my life. Around the age of 3 or 4 years old while I was sleeping, a woman stole me from my bed and my family in the night. The details are too much to ...
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