How many international adoptive parents have certain proof that their children were not stolen from their beds in the middle of the night by criminals intent on making a few bucks out of selling them on to the nearest broker?

With adoptions of Cambodian kids by Americans essentially coming to a screeching halt in December of 2001, most were completed before allegations of corruption appeared on potential... more

Kidnappings are in the news and on the minds of parents everywhere, nowhere more so than in Holland, where a Dutch family has reportedly learned that their son, adopted from India, had been kidnapped from his birth family and sold to a children's home with false documents that released the child for adoption. ... more

Few things strike fear in the hearts of parents like the threat or news of kidnapping. The kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby and subsequent search in 1932 held the whole country by the throat ... H.L. Mencken called it the "biggest story since the Resurrection" ... and led to the federal laws we have today.

The ... more

Wish I'd seen this yesterday, but perhaps it's not too late to email in some impact on the New Jersey Senate's vote today on S-2249 , a family leave bill that would include adoptive parents.

This could be groundbreaking, so if New Jersey is your state and you'd like to see adoptive families get the same benefits as those making their kids from scratch, email the heads of the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee, Sens. Bernard Kenny (SenKenny@njleg.org) and Sharpe James (SenJames@njleg.org).

To read all about it, see ... more

The Council on Contemporary Families has released a report on "Unconventional Wisdom" that is taking some by surprise.

Founded to, " ... increase communication among family researchers and practitioners from many different fields, and to help the press and public get access to accurate information and best-practice findings about how today's families... more

I have lots of bits and pieces of information to pass along at the moment, so we're starting the week off with those. Much of what follows is timely, so if you're coming across this post at a time far in the future from when it was written, some information will be dated. Please visit other posts here on the International Adoption Blog and on the Older Parent Blog for more general information, some entertainment, and an... more

Since I've made such a point of addressing celebrity adoptions, defending the rights of movie stars to be real live people, and reminding anyone I can that there's manipulation in them thar hills of media pap, I thought some reflection... more

As I mentioned on the Older Parent Blog the other day, among the hot-button topics that flare on adoption-related web groups and forums, Baby Safe Havens ... those drop-off points for infants where a mother can leave a child without fear of prosecution ... is a biggee. Many adoptees hate the whole concept, and Bastard Nation, an organization that fights for adoptee rights,... more

If you've been following allegations of adoption scandal in Samoa involving an American agency ... a Samoan family says the situation was misrepresented to them, and they want their five children back ... here's a reaction from a Samoan attorney.

Calling the allegations, "rubbish", he said:

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There's a three week-long march happening in India now to protest against child trafficking. All this to try an get the Indian Government to take the oh-so-very radical step of passing laws that would prosecute those who supply children for forced labor or sex.

Hey! There's a good idea!

The marchers, including many children who have been trafficked, will also stop in Bangladesh and Nepal, en route. The march has been organised... more