Posts Tagged ‘international adoption’

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

From Uncertainty to Confidence: Learning about HIV

Once I knew that it was possible to adopt a child with HIV, my questions came in a downpour. Fortunately for me, my friend Emily is a nurse practitioner who specializes in HIV, so she became the recipient of my long phone calls. What I learned surprised me: I feared that we might adopt an HIV+ child,...

February 4th, 2010 | Feature, HIV + Children | Read More

101 Best Adoption, Loss and Infertility Blogs

Back in 2008 when I wrote at A Child Chosen, I created a list that has since become one of my most popular posts. The Best of the Best: Top 50 Adoption Blogs has continued to circulate the web since I left b5media but some of those blogs have gone by the wayside and some have done so well the writers...

February 4th, 2010 | Carnival, Feature | Read More

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

playing the Adoption Card

I never thought I’d ever say this, but last month I caught my daughter playing the adoption card. What a phrase, right? Guaranteed to raise hackles left and right. Except that is EXACTLY what my five-year-old did. I am a momma who strives to keep open the lines of communication with my daughter,...

January 13th, 2010 | China, Feature | Read More

Who Could Possibly Want HIV+ Children?

I wrote an interesting letter yesterday. An orphanage caring for HIV+ children recently partnered with an adoption agency that was happy to work with them and eager to find families for these little ones. But then something changed. The orphanage director began to doubt the interest of the American...

January 12th, 2010 | Feature, HIV + Children | Read More

Only God – Only God….

This may be the only post I do publicly about the genetic lottery that my daughter won (or as some other people look at it the random lottery that she won) but my daughter has a disorder simply known as TSC (more about TSC after the jump). And in case you are wondering this is not a good lottery to...

January 7th, 2010 | Feature | Read More

Interview with Bert Ballard

Recently I had the opportunity to speak with Robert L. Ballard about the book Pieces Of Me; Who Do I Want To Be? (which will be known as POM from here on out, for obvious reasons). While I was dying to ask him about the use of the dreaded semi-colon in the title of every adoption book, I held back....

December 14th, 2009 | Feature | Read More

Is it Supposed to Be This Easy?

I used to talk with friends at lunch about how I was preparing myself for the “worst”…reading up on FAS, sensory issues, making sure I baby-proofed everything and they thought I was crazy. They told me that that having children was supposed to be easy. That attachment and bonding came...

November 16th, 2009 | Attachment, Guatemala, Russia | Read More

New Research Encourages Going Beyond Culture Camp

The Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute just released the executive summary of its recent research study entitled Beyond Culture Camp: Promoting Healthy Identity Formation in Adoption. I’m so excited to see this published study because, although the results aren’t really all that new if...

November 13th, 2009 | Feature, Korea | Read More