When we first started the adoption process, transracial adoption wasn't an option that I had ever thought of. I just assumed we would adopt a white skinned child. I also never considered adopting siblings. I just assumed we would adopt one child at a time. It's not that we were against transracial or sibling adoptions...we just never really thought about it. Well...you know what happens when you assume. :-) Being our children came home to us as a multiracial, sibling group, they've never... Read Full Story
By Elias Maseko If you and your partner are considering adopting a child, the most important thing to do before anything else is find yourself a suitable adoption lawyer, preferably from a law firm specializing in this type of work. The adoption process is very costly and if the potential adoptive mother or representative is perpetrating a deception the potential loss the adoptive parents can be huge and run into many thousands of dollars when en adoption lawyer could prevent this. A... Read Full Story
Here is a book about adoption that might bring mixed feelings from its readers. Forever Lily tells the autobiographical story of Beth, a woman who is in a place in life where she is not expecting to have any more children. She's a married professional who has helped raise her husband's children from his first marriage, and has always known that her husband wasn't eager to start raising children all over again. Then a friend, Alex, tells Beth that she and her husband are planning to adopt a... Read Full Story
A few days ago I wrote about a French organization called Arche de Zoe, or Zoe's Ark, that tried to smuggle 103 children out of Chad, Africa, in order to take them to "host families" in France. At the time that I wrote last, it was not known whether Zoe's Ark was legitamitely trying to provide relief to children they believed to be in danger, or whether they were running some sort of child trafficking scheme. Either way, the organization had gone about things wrong. Neither the governments... Read Full Story
A Journalist Guide to Adoption:
By Journalists For Journalists
Dear Journalist:
Adoption is increasingly being covered by the news media, whether it is the legislative battle to open adoption and birth records, the homecoming of a long-awaited child from overseas, the meeting of adoptees and their birth families, a custody battle, corrupt adoption practices, or an in-depth report on what makes a family. Despite the frequency with which these stories appear, adoption is little understood... Read Full Story
