The Korea Herald : The Nation’s No.1 English Newspaper: “Susan Soon-keum Cox is vice president of public policy & external affairs at Holt International Children’s Services. – Ed. ”
An older adoptee writes about why adoption should not be banned in Korea. Her comment about the “orphans with gray hair” with respect to children who didn’t get adopted and didn’t have a birth family really hits the mark.
ContraCostaTimes.com 08/04/2006 Kazakh sisters united in the Bay Area
:The fairy tale that began last summer, when two Kazakh orphans — sisters who never knew the other existed — found each other in the same Berkeley home, has its happy ending at last. Nearly a full year after Raya’s heart-breaking return to Kazakhstan, the brand new U.S. citizen and newest member of the Dalrymple family touched down at San Francisco airport Thursday afternoon with her mother, Robin.”
Adapting to Adoption
By Christina Nelson
http://partners.inq7.net/newsbreak/istories/index.php?story_id=55748
Article on Philippines adoption. Mentions Dr Laraua and the tedious process
Walla Walla Union-Bulletin: Local News:
By CHETNA CHOPRA for the Union-Bulletin
“Moms and dads reach across the seas to find sons and daughters, and a local network grows with the families.”
Excellent article, shows the positive aspects of support groups for adoptive families.
Rules will stem adopted-baby boom IndyStar.com:
By Juan Carlos Llorca, Associated Press
“GUATEMALA CITY — Every 100th baby born in Guatemala grows up as an adopted American, making the Central American country the richest source of adoptees in the Western Hemisphere.”
Thankfully Australia is a Hague country and this practice would not be permitted and adoptive parents wouldn’t be allowed to adopt in this situation.
Salt Lake Tribune – Adoptee siblings reunited:
Story about the reunion of birth sisters seperated through an adoption scandal… “The children had been caught up in an adoption scandal that sent at least two people to prison in 1985 for defrauding adoptive parents and birth mothers in 40 states.”
Neighborhood News Inc. – The Salem Observer
By Jim Devine – 17 July 06 – The Salem Observer
Just a nice adoption story.
“The delivery, which took Logan across the world from an embattled Lebanon through two military bases and three continents safely concluded an international adoption incident that eventually involved high-ranking government officials.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoption
Got to say I love Wikipedia. This is a very good outline of adoption and includes items like the prejudice of adoptism which most families who’ve adopted know all about.
I particularly like the terminology section and must forward it on to a few people.
http://www.adoptionfilm.org/video.html
This is a series of short videos talking about some adoption concepts.
http://www.iafq.org.au/ – International Adoptive Families of Queensland
http://www.asiac.org.au/ – Australian Society of Intercountry Aid for Children (NSW)
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