Adoption

VIPs: Very Important Posts from July 2012

August 1, 2012

Amanda resists the urge to bang her head against a wall when someone tells her, “So go look at your birth certificate!” at Land of Gazillion Adoptees. Think about the nails-on-chalkboard phrase to infertile people, “Just adopt!” and you’ll get a sense why this grated so. My birth certificate, gee, now why didn’t I think [...]

What causes adoption? And other issues that arise from The Daily Beast article

July 20, 2012

It’s been said that adoption is demand-led, that adopting parents create the pull for children. That without it we’d have dramatically fewer children separated from their biological parents. “Europe’s Growing Crisis of Abandoned Babies” from The Daily Beast looks at the other part of the equation — the supply or the push side of adoption. [...]

Lisa Ling tackles the topic of open adoption

July 11, 2012

We were aghast, those of us living in (or hoping to live in) open adoptions, at what The Today Show experts said about open adoption last month. Lisa Ling, a journalist I have long respected, will soon tackle the same topic on the Oprah Winfrey Network in her series, Our America with Lisa Ling. Or [...]

VIPs: Very Important Posts from June 2012

July 3, 2012

A post at Patheos reveals how one mother moved from the letter of an open adoption agreement to the true spirit of open adoption. You can see how the woman’s perspective shifts from her own to her child’s. Jenni Levy explains in My Daughter Has Two Mothers how Emma brought her birth mom into their [...]

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