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Today's Fresh Blogs...| I’m a slow learner |
| Published: July 29, 2007, 12:21 pm |
| Tags: Adoption |
| covering the history of open adoption lately and it made me realize why I’m sometimes butting heads with other adoptive parents. See, I never think of open adoption or adoption grief as being part of the nature vs. nurture argument. I hadn’t realized that open adoption is predicated in part on our upholding of biological ties as being |
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| One more thing |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 11:39 am |
| Tags: Adoption |
| need for answers but that adoption can’t be addressed in a simple mathematical formula like “Jessica had X and there was Y and so Z — you’re adopted!” I think when a child who is adopted says, “How could you give me up???” there is no answer that will make that pain go away. So I think part of the job |
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| When words get in the way |
| Published: July 29, 2007, 11:39 am |
| Tags: Adoption Language, Birth Parents, First Parents, Terminology |
| When I wrote the note about language for this site I did that so that visitors would know exactly what first parent means and also to make it clear that first family members are present and valued here. read more |
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| End of the visit |
| Published: July 17, 2007, 11:15 am |
| Tags: Contact, Open Adoption |
| Today Mal comes home from visiting her first/birth mother Noelle. She has been there since last Wednesday. I'm dying to know everything that went on. Actually what I really want to know is how everyone felt. And because of my place in this relationship, I don't know if I ever really will. read more |
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| Dusty |
| Published: July 16, 2007, 1:57 pm |
| Tags: Firstmother, Guilt, Open Adoption, Pregnancy |
| posted orginially at my blog 7.16.07 First Families read more |
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| Priceless |
| Published: July 15, 2007, 11:29 am |
| Tags: Adjusting To Openness, International Adoption |
| HeatherS' Half-formed Thought really got me thinking - cross-posting my reaction, originally posted here, with a couple of minor edits for clarity. read more |
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| High stakes |
| Published: July 11, 2007, 9:47 am |
| Tags: Meeting First Parents, Open Adoption |
| I have this recurring anxiety dream. In my dream, I'm trying to go somewhere, but I can't get out of the house. I'm not trapped, it's just that I leave and then I have to go back because I've forgotten to put on mascara. Then I leave but I have to go back to change my shoes. It goes on and on like this. read more |
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| Who's Afraid of Open Adoption? |
| Published: July 6, 2007, 4:49 pm |
| Tags: African American, Black, Open Adoption |
| concerns about openness in adoption. Yet in my narrow experience, as a black woman, I've seen that black potential adoptive parents seem to be even more leery of open adoption than majority parents. I wondered why that was. Could there be something cultural that made us want/need to have closed adoption? read |
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| Buglaria: Adoption / Trafficking, not two sides of a coin |
| Published: July 29, 2007, 7:13 am |
| Tags: Adoption In The World, Nastiness And Shoddy Practices |
| For information on Bulgarian adoption from the US Department of State, click here. This will give a look at how adoption in Bulgaria is conducted ... rules, regulations, laws, etc. ... when international adoption of a Bulgarian child is being conducted by law-abiding citizens, adoption professionals and potential adoptive parents hoping to add a |
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| International Adoption: Nepal |
| Published: July 28, 2007, 8:08 am |
| Tags: Adoption In The World, Country News, Nepal |
| information on international adoption from Nepal in the country section of their international adoption site. Framed in a Question and Answer format, it addresses the current status of adoptions in Nepal, the US Embassy's role now for parents who are in the process, the present suspension of adoption imposed by the Government of Nepal, and what |
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| Adoption: Lebanon |
| Published: July 23, 2007, 9:05 am |
| Tags: Adoption Stories, Adoption In The World, Adoption Information |
| Although adoption from Lebanon isn't big enough for a Yahoo group or its own category on the Adoption.com forums, it does happen, and it does make the news. This story about a family from New Hampshire proves it ... but Boy Howdy!!! it ain't easy, or often. According to the => Read more! |
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| Adoption, AIDS and helping |
| Published: July 22, 2007, 8:27 am |
| Tags: Adoption In The World, Health, India, Zimbabwe, Related News From The World, For The Greater Good, Russia, Birth Country Contributions |
| orientation program on adoption was held recently in Lucknow, India, with the aim of increasing awareness locally on the issues of adoption in that country. Domestic Indian adoptions continue to lack popularity, with most people determined to avoid adopting a child. Also on the agenda, uniformity in adoption rules to remove much of what |
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| Small world gets smaller |
| Published: July 18, 2007, 8:15 am |
| Tags: Adoption In The World, Links Of Interest, China, Related News From The World, Birth Country Contributions |
| to do with children and adoption around the world range from the widely different to basically the same, as although cultural differences abound, we are at the base of it all humans. For example, this story out of the UK illustrates how children of ethnic minorities there wait longer for placement in adoptive families ... up to three times |
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| Adoption: Moldova |
| Published: July 17, 2007, 8:52 am |
| Tags: Adoption In The World, In The News, Adoption Information, Country News, Adopting The Process |
| I have no idea what is going on, if the cosmos is trying to tell me something or get me to tell someone else, but almost every time I've gone online the past couple of days, stories about Moldova have presented themselves before me; not just Moldova as a country, but Moldova as a country with orphans and people who adopt them. Even => Read more! |
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| J.K. Rowling: International adoption overlap, Part 2 |
| Published: July 16, 2007, 5:23 pm |
| Tags: Adoption In The World, The Un, Romania, For The Greater Good, Adoption Advocacy |
| Continued from here. I'm not saying Jo Rowling is intentionally bankrolling clapping with one hand and sacrificing children on the alter of 'Gee, the numbers look good', but the CHLG does make me very nervous, and she is a founder ... along with Emma Nicholson, and given her history she really breaks me out in hives of anxiety and has me worrying |
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