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Facing down the judges in Malawai
March 21, 2010 – 7:30 am | No Comment

Adoptive parents untroubled by the Malawai court’s bending of the rules might consider the fact that judges in the U.S. go around the law at times as well, and not always in favor of the prospective adoptive parents.

Kid Dumping in International Adoption
March 10, 2010 – 10:31 am | 3 Comments
Kid Dumping in International Adoption

Republished by Blog Post PromoterCelebrities 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 …

Were they Orphans? Does it Really Matter Graff?
February 25, 2010 – 7:34 am | 2 Comments

E.J. Graff states in yesterday’s New York Times article that “too often, the amounts of money that Western adoption agencies spend in poor countries is helping to defraud, coerce or kidnap children away from families that wanted to raise them to adulthood”.

Oh Mercy, Madonna
October 27, 2009 – 7:21 am | 9 Comments

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?

Is Adoption the new Celeb Fad?
September 3, 2009 – 8:00 am | 8 Comments

Republished by Blog Post PromoterThe 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 …

Family Building; A Matter Of Public Scrutiny?
May 26, 2009 – 8:00 am | 2 Comments

At what point do we support and love our friends and neighbors in this challenge we call family instead of spending our time looking for and debating about publicly ways in which we are different?

Has Adoption Become “Child Trafficking?”
April 7, 2009 – 7:52 am | 3 Comments
Has Adoption Become “Child Trafficking?”

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 …