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Nov 27, 2009, 7:51 am
At this blog I learned of a new adoption scheme being proposed by Coram, a children’s charity in the UK. The plan is as follows:
Babies taken into care immediately after birth (substance abuse ... Comment - Like
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Nov 24, 2009, 7:50 pm
The well-known international charity Save the Children has done its own research in Central and Eastern Europe, Indonesia, and Africa and has concluded that four out of five “orphans” hav... Comment - Like
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Nov 23, 2009, 7:14 am
ABC’s Find My Family airs today, Monday, November 23.
It’s about search-and-reunion. Period. That’s what the show is about. It is not a show about adoption or how great it is except... Comment - Like
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Nov 22, 2009, 5:31 pm
This is not about My Lil’ Guatling, but something like it. It’s my own lil’ Guatling. Like your own lil’ Waterloo.
Last week, it got me kicked off an adoptive-parent list.
Ad... Comment - Like
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Nov 14, 2009, 6:18 pm
This all started because I noticed recently that this post, in which I confessed to loving David Gergen and one my colleagues blurted out that
ahahaha! did you see him blush in the video? he’s so c... Comment - Like
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Nov 13, 2009, 3:00 pm
Apparently, the number of women in prison just keeps going up and up in the United States. So Ohio has started a program that will let pregnant inmates give birth to, raise, and keep their babies in p... Comment - Like
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Nov 12, 2009, 8:14 pm
“Kung Fu” to sell Christian books was Zondervan’s brilliant publishing and marketing strategy.
Gulp.
The Michigan publisher’s 2007 book Deadly Viper Character Assassin: A Kung Fu Sur... Comment - Like
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Nov 11, 2009, 9:18 pm
Last night I visited the Christian Adoption Blog where . . . OK, stupid thing I did. Commented on the children-for-sale listings known euphemistically as “adoption situations”.
To the untrained e... Comment - Like
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Nov 11, 2009, 2:46 pm
That’s what I asked my daughter this morning, after reading about Kim Eun Mi Young in the New York Times. In a story highlighting the release of the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute study on... Comment - Like
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Nov 7, 2009, 8:45 am
I do fantasize about Simone’s first mother.
She is the woman who joins our Curves workout around 9:40, about 10 minutes before we wrap up. Asian, small, slim, in her 40s and you could bounce th... Comment - Like
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Nov 6, 2009, 6:40 am
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 Al... Comment - Like
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Nov 5, 2009, 6:57 pm
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 Interna... Comment - Like
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Nov 1, 2009, 9:41 am
A truly bizarre website has surfaced belonging none other to than Katherine Hoy Foley, who supports birthmother anonymity and opposes open records. Foley sued New Jersey in June 2009 because its Divis... Comment - Like
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Oct 30, 2009, 12:54 pm
A few years ago when the 2008 US presidential election campaign was getting underway I became interested in the left wing of the evangelical movement. Remember the book God’s Politics: Why the R... Comment - Like
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Oct 25, 2009, 10:00 am
At NewMajority, where they have boldly dedicated themselves “to the modernization and renewal of the Republican party and the conservative movement,” the following photo was selected for a story a... Comment - Like
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Oct 22, 2009, 12:14 pm
It’s been brewing for some time but now appears somewhat official: there is a Christian duty to adopt. Christian evangelicals are being commanded to “be at the forefront of the adoption of orp... Comment - Like
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Oct 19, 2009, 1:19 pm
Biting satire alert.
You know those people who return from their international adoption trek feeling so . . . international?
Someone has captured that here. Comment - Like
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Oct 18, 2009, 7:00 pm
Most of you have heard about the Best Adoption Blog Award that’s part of The Bump mommy blogger awards.
But if you haven’t, I’m confident that most of you have heard of Dawn at This... Comment - Like
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Oct 15, 2009, 6:31 pm
This post is a continuation of the previous post so if you hated that one, you won’t like this one and it might be best to quit reading now. On the other hand, I’d prefer if you’d st... Comment - Like
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Oct 12, 2009, 9:56 am
There isn’t another question out there guaranteed to light the adoption stink bomb like “real parents”. As in, are you her real parents?
The Brotherhood of Joseph, an adoption memoir by Bro... Comment - Like
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Oct 9, 2009, 8:55 am
Inspired by Malinda’s contribution to this month’s Grown in My Heart Carnival, we will begin with a quote:
JULIET:
‘Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou a... Comment - Like
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Oct 7, 2009, 7:21 pm
There were some interesting remarks made on the research-China blog this week about what contribution adoptive parents should make to reforming China’s adoption program.
Mom to Willow and Two ... Comment - Like
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Oct 4, 2009, 8:48 pm
I saw this picture of an “ultrasound” on an adopt-from China blog recently. Words fail me. However, I have a feeling this thing is making the rounds under the postive-thinking category. If... Comment - Like
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Oct 3, 2009, 2:43 pm
I mentioned in a previous post that I didn’t think Motherlode editor Lisa Belkin’s statement about Anita Tedaldi’s column—
The point was not to say, ‘Look, this happens all the... Comment - Like
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Oct 2, 2009, 7:16 pm
I’ve been meaning to revisit the topic of adoption disruption again after receiving a passionate post from a parent who disrupted. You can find it here. I’ll be posting about it later bec... Comment - Like
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Oct 1, 2009, 8:39 am
It started with Emmie, in grad school and unexpectedly pregnant. She wrote to NYT’s Motherlode column and asked what she should do—terminate, place the baby for adoption, or raise the child? ... Comment - Like
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Sep 29, 2009, 4:38 pm
Last week, I had this photo open on my computer when Simone walked into my office, she who is quite cagey when it comes to talking about adoption.
“Oooh, what is that? Can I see?” she said and pl... Comment - Like
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Sep 28, 2009, 10:58 pm
I’m going to get kicked off one of the birthparents search lists I’m on soon because of opening-up-big-yap syndrome accompanied by shrill, high-pitched screams.
At times, I just want to ... Comment - Like
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Sep 27, 2009, 7:35 pm
Boo. Hiss. Strange that an institution claiming to promote “strong critical, analytical, and communication skills” would hop on the marriage bandwagon.
You know, it wasn’t long ago that... Comment - Like
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Sep 20, 2009, 7:36 pm
So many feelings this week.
A chance to second-guess my own adoption knowledge (crappy) and two terrible articles on stolen children from China.
Stolen. Grabbed. Forcibly removed.
One of them is ... Comment - Like
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Sep 18, 2009, 8:13 pm
The gauntlet has been thrown down at Grown in My Heart. What adoption issues have touched you that no one told you about?
Neat question. How can I begin.
Nobody explained about the baby patch. Comes... Comment - Like
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Sep 10, 2009, 3:08 pm
Here’s a post I came across this afternoon that I love. It’s called Weeping the end of summer away and it’s about saying goodbye to your kids as they head off to camp or school. It&#... Comment - Like
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Sep 6, 2009, 3:52 pm
I am probably just lazy, but I’m finding it more inspiring to comment these days than to write. Over at First Mothers Forum, Lorraine asked today if there were parallels between child abduction ... Comment - Like
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Aug 23, 2009, 1:35 pm
Single mom adopts mom Chinese boy in 2001. Since he is 8 at the time of the adoption, they talk frequently about his memories. He has many–all pretty good.
Curiouser and curioser.
One day a-m... Comment - Like
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Aug 13, 2009, 8:04 pm
At the time of adoption, my feelings about Simone’s parents were one-dimensional. Pitifully so. But as I have tried to describe before, her parents were not so much feared as invisible. China wa... Comment - Like
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Aug 10, 2009, 7:25 am
UPDATE: CUTE JERRY TRAINOR VIDEO ADDED.
I watch a lot of my daughter’s favourite shows and movies with her. For one thing, you can stay a little closer to what your kid is viewing. Second, you ... Comment - Like
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Aug 7, 2009, 7:47 pm
I love this summer pasta recipe. We just made it again tonight, and I could make it almost any night. Talk about quick and simple. And healthy. And good for kids too. A friend told us about this recip... Comment - Like
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Aug 6, 2009, 8:45 pm
Disruption isn’t something I know a whole lot about. There was a single mom who adopted from China a few years after I did who claimed her adoption was “wrongful” because her child t... Comment - Like
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Jul 27, 2009, 2:21 pm
This question comes up all the time. Recently, Mirah noted that
. . . we would not have 129,000 children in foster care while the vast majority of adopters people pay tens of thousands of dollars for... Comment - Like
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Jul 23, 2009, 10:28 pm
I’m on one international adoption list where the realities of first families make for sobering reading. Most of the families are located in Eastern Europe and have contact with the a-parents of... Comment - Like
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