Continued from the previous post, where we were talking about orphans in Kashmire, and how help sometimes doesn't look like that to everyone.

There's the Marriage of Poor and Orphan Girls Foundation:

Foundation provides financial help to orphan and poor girls for conducting their marriages and shares their financial woes and worries. These marriages are conducted with simplicity, grace and accordingly to Islamic... more

A report today out of India ... not new information, but showing up this morning, nonetheless ... on the plight of orphans around the Kashmir region is reminding me of much of what prompted the series I did a couple of days back that began with Iraq and moved on from there.

A... more

In writing about Vietnamese adult adoptees adopting from their birth country, I came across this study that I would love to give you more of, but can't because the full text costs $35 to access. What I do have, however, is the abstract.

This short summation of what is certain to be a long and detailed research article put... more

Since the Africa blog is temporarily without someone attending full time, I'm paying even closer attention to issues of the continent that pertain to children in general and to adoption specifically.

This story stands out this morning. Titled, "Africa: Poverty Can Separate A Child From Family", reflects on the condition and plight of African Children as seen by Halifa... more

Whoever you are ... I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Blanche DuBois -- "A Streetcar Named Desire"

I've been thinking ... and writing ... about Iraqi orphans lately -- what can happen when international adoption is not an option for kids, how cruel some people can be to innocents, how war often brings out the worst in humans -- and pondering over what, if anything,... more

Parents with kids from China will be interested to hear about "China Ghosts" a new book written by Jeff Gammage about the adoption of his daughter. It's the story of a girl, a father and a family that Lisa See, author of "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" ... a lovely book of harsh realities ... calls, " ... the most informative and heartfelt book I’ve read about the adoption of girls from China.”

Parents in Pakistan have a strange ... more

Since we're without a Korean Adoption blogger at the moment, I thought I'd pass on this news about the Smithsonian Museum's launching of its Korea Gallery. Officially open since Friday, the 8th of June, the gallery is in the new Hall of Asian Cultures on the second floor of the museum displaying over 4,000 artifacts representing Korean history and culture.

The idea for this took root in 2003, when Korea's First... more

Holly's Africa Adopt Blog on GW Bush's announced call for a bump in the HIV/AIDS budget ties into research I've been doing lately on a variety of issues relating to the world's children and provides a smooth lead to related stories in the news right now.

Global Action For Children,(GAC), the... more

Here's the question that started me off down a thought highway ... if an adopted child is proven to have been kidnapped and the biological family is found, what should happen to that child?

Talk on web groups in response to the story out of Holland about the adopted child proven to have been kidnapped in India... more

We began this series of posts with our attention on kidnapping ... the Maddy McCann case, and the adopted child... more