Celebrities like Madonna and Angelina and Brad have apparently caused a rise in the number of children in international orphanages. Psychologists at the University of Liverpool have found the highest rates of children living in institutions are in Eastern European Countries. Originally posted 2009-04-07...

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...

The New York Post has reported that it cost Madonna 19 million dollars to get the go ahead to adopt Chifundo ”Mercy” James. 19 million dollars. Do you know what you can get for 19 million dollars? 1900 diamond encrusted pointy bras from Harry Winston 3,800,000 bottles of Miss Clairol...

The most recent adoptions in the spotlight come from celebrity moms Angelina, Madonna, Sheryl, Meg, Mary Louise Parker, Lauren Holly, and many more. But what “gets” me is that so many celebrities say they want to adopt in lieu of having biological children (or after they have biological...

Entertainment media and adoption blogs have been abuzz lately with news of Madonna’s second adoption from Malawai. The singer’s petition to adopt four-year old Chifundo “Mercy” James was approved by Malawi’s Supreme Court of Appeals in an irreversible decision, ending a...

With a new era of openness and publicity, it seems the public has become very concerned with the whys and hows of the family building practices of their neighbors. From “Octomom” Nadia Suleman and her incredible pregnancy via IVF, to Sarah Jessica Parker and the impending birth of her twins...

From A Birth Project: According to a BBC report, a group of ‘charity workers’ located in Chad were arrested on the tarmark of the airport with an airplane full of about 103 children. The group denies they planned to sell the children for adoption, instead claiming they were sending them to ‘host...