Archive for the ‘Haiti’ Category

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

Lessons from the Haiti Adoption Fiasco

Lessons from the Haiti Adoption Fiasco
Media Attention of Haiti Adoption Sheds Light on Raw Adoption Truths It seemed like the minute I heard about the earthquake in Haiti, the story was linked to adoption. My poor husband, such a news junkie, started clicking away from the channels when an adoption related story came on. I had to tell him...
February 9th, 2010 | Feature, First-Moms, Haiti | Read More

How Could People Steal Children?

How Could People Steal Children?
I read an article this morning that just broke my heart. Okay, it didn’t break my heart. It angered me beyond anger. It pissed me off. It made me want to…well, I don’t know. I haven’t stayed abreast of all of the Haitian adoption/orphan stories because most of it, in my opinion,...
February 3rd, 2010 | Adoptee Rights, Feature, Haiti, Trauma, adoption process | Read More