(Hyoung Chang/ The Denver Post) Today I want to tell you a true story, but it is best told in the words of others who know it much better than I do. As many of you know, I am fascinated with ... Read More
Parenting & Adoption
Vulnerability of Prospective and New Adoptive Parents
(PLEASE RE-POST TO FB, STUMBLE UPON AND ALSO TWEET ANY OF MY ARTICLES THAT YOU LIKE. THANKS!) Vulnerability of Prospective and New Adoptive Parents. ..My Surprising Refresher Course ... Read More
Artyom From Russia-An Experienced Adoptive Parent & Professional Speaks Out (Long, but hopefully worthwhile)
(An Unknown Sad Child) The adoption world, the media, and outraged citizens from many countries are reacting with horror at the news of the single adoptive mother from ... Read More
Tool for Taking Responsibility Like Warren Buffett
I heard a piece on NPR a while back that mentioned how Warren Buffett makes a practice of disclosing to his ... Read More
PARENTING: IS THE EMPHASIS ON PRAISE & SELF-ESTEEM SUCH A GOOD THING?
I suppose I will make some enemies with this post but it never stopped me before from saying what I thought. My home ... Read More
SHOULD I ADOPT A CHILD OF ANOTHER RACE OR CULTURE
You want a baby or child so much. You dream about it all the time. You have come to believe there really is a child out there in the world meant just for you. You have finally come to ... Read More
KIDS, GRIEF and PARENTING THROUGH the HOLIDAY SEASON
The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief - But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love. --Hilary Stanton Zunin If you have ... Read More
Guest Blogger-The Dismantling of International Adoptions
Today I have a guest blogger. Miriam Vieni is a New York licensed social worker who worked in the international adoption field for 34 years and is now retired. The Dismantling of International ... Read More
SHAMEFUL & TERRIBLE TIMES IN INTERNATIONAL ADOPTION
Some of you have heard me rant and rave about the horrendous changes that have been pending for years but have finally been put into place in the United States earlier this year (2008). I was ... Read More
More From the Adoption World
A post from my esteemed colleague, Hannah Wallace of Adoptions International in Philadelphia (With permission) There is a shameful period in American History known as the McCarthy Era, when the ... Read More