A Child Chosen - Perspectives of an Adoptive Parent

June 25th, 2008

Gotcha Baby Introduces…

My dear friend Michelle is proud to announce her second little one. And, you have to read the story behind it and about the hospital wristbands.
Tags: domestic-adoption

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June 22nd, 2008

Fast Times for Teen Pregnancy

When it comes to teen pregnancy there are mistakes made by smart teens, accidents that happen because, well, accidents happen, and then there are girls who want to get pregnant.

The news this week is out of Gloucester, Massachusets where there are 17 expecting teen girls, all of them 16 and under. Half of them confessed […]

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June 21st, 2008

Lynn Paddock on Trial for Death of 4-year-old

Lynn Paddock, charged with murder in 2006, was on trial lastweek for the murder of her 4-year-old son Sean. She wrapped him in blankets at night to keep in him bed and suffocated him.
Tags: , abuse, death, johnny paddock, johnson county, lynn paddock, rev. michael pearl, sean paddock

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June 14th, 2008

Transracial Adoption at its Best

Ah yes, hot topic still…and probably always will be. In the United States 140,000 children are adopted through agencies and 20,000 are adopted by parents of a different race. However, black children are less likely to be adopted into a family of another race and the laws are not helping.
When the Donaldson Adoption Institutes’s […]

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May 29th, 2008

Should Race Matter?

Race always matters, right?
African, Caucasian, Chinese, Guatemalan, Vietnamese, Korean, Ethiopian, Nepalese, Russian, Ukrainian, Haitian, Kazak, and more…
Race always matters, right?
Tags: , 1996 adoption law, Adoption, black, caucasian, color blind, evan b donaldson adoption institute, guatemalan, Hispanic, Home-study, Law, Race, race matters in adoption, russian, should race matter, transracial-adoption

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May 28th, 2008

China Adoption Requests Increase

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 […]

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May 24th, 2008

Is this Adoptive Couple Out of Bounds?

Thanks to one of my weekly reads, I found this story. It sent me into a whirl because I thought it was a hoax. Come to find out…it’s totally true!
Is this adoptive couple out of bounds or are they within their right to approach women in this manner?
Tags: , Adoption, domestic-adoption, pregnancy

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May 21st, 2008

Adoption Agency Checklist

 How do you determine which agency to use when adopting either internationally or domestically? The agency that you use will be part of your family for your lifetime; they are not just part of your life for the time you adopt your child. You have post placements to do after the adoption and you may […]

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May 16th, 2008

Florida Launches Adoption Campaign

Every year almost 3,000 children become available for adoption in the state of Florida. Of those, 40 percent are adopted by relateives, 40 percent are adopted by foster parents. The remaining children are, unfortunately, left without forever families.
Florida is launching a new campaign called Explore Adoption. It is aimed at promoting the benefits of domestic, […]

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May 15th, 2008

May is National Foster Care Month

There are currently 510,000 American children and youth in foster care…do you want to do something to help?
I’m sure you have a few minutes to “change a lifetime”.
Tags: , change a lifetime, Charity, Foster Care, foster care month

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