While parents battle autism in the classroom this week in Port St. Lucie adopted children are fighting to be freed of their adoptive mother.
Judith Leekin has admitted to using false name (don’t know how the heck she did that!) to adopt 11 disabled children and keeping them as prisoners while she qualified for adoption subsidies.
She […]
I have waited to post anything about the birth mother interviews in Guatemala because it is so hard for me to write about…so hard for me to think that Gus’s birth mother has to go back, yet again, and explain her situation to people who don’t know anything about her and her life.
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I get many request from readers and friends on what the adoption process is. It is cumbersome, I won’t lie to you but its not as bad as one might think.
I’m going to link you to several different agencies so that you can get an idea of how they do things differently. Our first agency, […]
Race always matters, right?
African, Caucasian, Chinese, Guatemalan, Vietnamese, Korean, Ethiopian, Nepalese, Russian, Ukrainian, Haitian, Kazak, and more…
Race always matters, right?
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The earthquake that rattled China has killed more than 65,000 people and more than 23,000 are still missing. Officials have not been able to estimate how many children have gone missing or have been killed.
However, since the quake, the country has suspended the one child only policy for quake only victims.
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According to the USA Today adoption agencies are receiving an increase in phone calls from people who are inquiring about orphaned children in China.
“There’s lots of interest,” says Joshua Zhong, co-founder of Chinese Children Adoption International, one of the largest China-only agencies in the USA.
Inquiries have more than triples since the May 12 earthquake, which […]
After a long ordeal, the has finally approved Madonna’s adoption of David Banda, whom she found in an orphanage in 2006.
Madonna nor Guy Ritchie were present for the ruling.
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Every kid loves lemonade…and every kid loves a lemonade stand, right? I used to LOVE the making and drinking the lemonade more than actually selling it (probably because we got few passers-by on my street).
Here is a fabulous recipe for that old fashioned lemonade that every child will be asking to make…and not wanting to […]
Organizations in Sichuan are currently preparing for the onslaught of hundreds of children, some that may be orphans and some that may have parents who are either missing or ill.
The Ministry of Civil Affairs stated that all adoption procedures would be activated only at the proper time.
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A 7-month-old baby in foster care died Monday in Mansfield Connecticut. The baby was being cared for by a licensed foster parent and investigators are still waiting for the results of the autopsy.
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