Archive for the ‘Advocate’ Category

Were they Orphans? Does it Really Matter Graff?

Save the Children and Unicef both believe that children are better off in their home countries. Save the Children has gone so far as to say that international adoption can actually  “exacerbate the problem it hopes to solve…the very existence of orphanages encourages poor parents to abandon...
February 25th, 2010 | Advocate, Domestic, Feature, Health | Read More

Kids and Culture: What’s Most Important?

Kids and Culture: What’s Most Important?
Every year for Chinese New Year, our foster home celebrates the holiday by engaging in all the most common traditions – decorating the home with paper cuttings and chuen lian (door post hangings), lighting fire crackers, eating lots of oranges, making jiaozi (dumplings) and stuffing ourselves until...
February 24th, 2010 | Advocate, China, Culture, Haiti | Read More

Adoption Carnival V: What do you want REFORMED?

Adoption Carnival V: What do you want REFORMED?
Adoption Reform means so many things because we all come from different parts of the adoption community. To you reform may mean making original birth certificates available to every adoptee, to me it may mean making all countries Hague compliant. Almost everyone involved in adoption believes that the...
January 28th, 2010 | Adoptee Rights, Advocate, Carnival, Feature | Read More

The “A” Word

The “A” Word
Growing up, “A” was for attitude. And as I grew older, into the edgy years of puberty, “A” became “AA”—for attitude adjustment. My father liked to say, “You need an attitude adjustment.” Frequently spot-on, his comment was met with a snarl and affirming nod from reluctant me. As I...
January 26th, 2010 | Advocate, Feature, Issues, Trauma | Read More

Adoption in Haiti

Adoption in Haiti
We’ve all been inundated with the news and images from Haiti as the living fight to survive disease and death in the aftermath of the 7.0 earthquake that devastated their world January 14th. At the time of this writing more than 200,000 dead are thought to be dead and tens of thousands are unaccounted...
January 20th, 2010 | Advocate, Feature | Read More

Pro-Choice

I am Pro-Choice. I have seen a lot of children and heard a lot of stories in our adoption process. I know that there are women out there who know in their hearts that they can’t handle raising their children anymore than they can handle making an adoption plan. I know there are children out there...
December 25th, 2009 | Advocate | Read More

Adoptee Rights Expanded in Ontario, Colorado

Thanks to the hard work of adoption activists, hundreds of thousands of adults who were adopted as children in Canada and Colorado will now be able to do what the rest of the population does with hardly a second thought: get a copy of their birth certificate. Under a new Ontario law that took effect...
October 19th, 2009 | Advocate | Read More

“Orphan”: Perpetuating Misinformation about Adoption

In today’s savvy, politically correct society – the one that claims to exist within the intellectual borders of the U.S., this shouldn’t happen. Indeed, if it were to be a (insert a word) child, Warner Brothers wouldn’t be able to get away with it. But, stick an adopted older child into...
October 16th, 2009 | Advocate, Feature, Health, Russia | Read More

What I Hear

When a parent from the China-adoption community says… I chose China because I don’t want to have to deal with birthparents at all. Adult adoptees who talk about the negative sides of adoption are just angry and ungrateful. It’s okay to talk poorly about the country of China...
September 10th, 2009 | Advocate, China | Read More

I Blame “Juno”

I Blame “Juno”
It’s not like we haven’t seen this before. The near-constant reruns of Adoption Stories often showcase domestic adoption from the prospective adoptive parents’ point of view. Just the other month, the MTV series 16 and Pregnant featured a young couple who placed their child in an semi-closed adoption....
August 12th, 2009 | Advocate, Feature | Read More
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