http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/10/celebrity-adoptions-and-the-real-world/?ref=world

Always interesting to read what others think of adoption, have a look at the comments and you’ll see the typical stuff about the kids should stay in their own culture, only children who have no living relatives should be adopted overseas etc.

From my perspective, with 3 children who joined my family through international adoption, I am so grateful that God saw fit to put my kids with my wife and myself.

Thirty-five years ago there were almost 10,000 adoptions in Australia. Last year there were just 568.

The vast majority of children adopted last financial year – 71 per cent – came from overseas. Most were Asian – 31 per cent came from China, 20 per cent from South Korea and 11 per cent from the Philippines.

http://www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/lifematters/adoption-rate-in-free-fall-20090407-9ytr.html

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• The adoption travel experience (gadling.com)

Even more interesting is to read people response to the article. See http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090317.wlAdoption0317/CommentStory/lifeFamily#comments where you get to see how the “politically correct” people think they have the right to tell parents how to raise their adopted kids.

Anyhow, worthy of a checkout.

Another that I haven’t had a close look at yet but looks promising is http://www.artsreformation.com/records/ which is vinyl records for kids from the 50’s and 60’s.

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/living/stories/2007/12/07/adoptions_1208.html

Apparently adoption rates in the US are in decline. See article.

Figures for the 2007 fiscal year, recently released by the State Department, showed that adoptions from abroad have fallen to 19,411, down about 15 percent in just the past two years.

It’s a dramatic change. The number of foreign adoptions had more than tripled since the early 1990s, reaching a peak of 22,884 in 2004 before dipping slightly in 2005, then falling to 20,679 in 2006.

Positive adoption story from Australia’s 60 Minutes. This looks at a family 18 months after adoption and back to the day the family met.

This appears to be some good background info on the Philippines. One of my problems has always been to find info that I could use for a short break.

Check it out.

Adopting across cultures

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=demRHgul2Zk