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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 |
| A state-level 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 |
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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 |
| 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 longer ... and there |
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| India Adoption, it's mothers this time |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 7:14 am |
| Tags: Country News, India, Related News From The World, For The Greater Good |
| I've been writing about India, its children, India international adoptions, Indian adoption laws, problems and more for a long time now. Over the past year-and-a-half-plus, I've posted on the nuts and bolts of the system, child labor, => Read more! |
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| Guatemala politics, a cool plant, and choosing girls |
| Published: August 21, 2007, 4:54 am |
| Tags: Related News From The World |
| Call me slow on the up-take, but since I'm not mom to Guatemalan-born kids I haven't been following the politics of that country as closely as others have. That being the case, I'm relying on others to bring me up to speed on happenings there and the "Why" that goes with. Lisa fills in many gaps well, and information from other bloggers flesh |
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| International adoption S-T-R-E-T-C-H-E-D |
| Published: August 29, 2007, 4:34 am |
| Tags: Related News From The World |
| Starting with the concept of international adoption, stretching it like silly putty, then taking it out for a very long walk, you could come to this story out of India that describes a scenario that's becoming increasingly common. It's about a 45-year-old acupuncture physician in Miami, Nicole Brown, hoping to hear she's in the process of |
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| Guatemala mess, China orphan rights, India confusion |
| Published: September 5, 2007, 3:41 am |
| Tags: Related News From The World |
| In the ongoing mess that is the Casa Quivira orphanage grab fiasco in Guatemala, it's easy for some to forget about the impact on the adoptive parents caught in the tangled tango. This story from Denver looks at one dad and his sad and scary sojourn in limbo. Chinese orphans have reportedly => Read more! |
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| Poorer and richer |
| Published: September 10, 2007, 5:17 am |
| Tags: Related News From The World |
| Grandmothers and orphans often go together, so it makes sense that hundreds of Canadian grandmas would join up in a march urging Canada to step up as a leader in support of AIDS orphans in Africa. Working with the Stephen Lewis Foundation, the Canadian Grandmothers of Africa organized the march in Ottawa which included some grandmothers ... => |
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