It must be acknowledged that the numbers of children adopted from one country, then raised in another nowhere approach a percentage of any country's population of children, or of orphans for that matter, that could register as statistically significant, much less enough to be held responsible for any sort of cultural genocide.

It can be argued, however, that a country's loss of even one of its children could be responsible for a sequence... more

My recent post on cultural genocide which illustrated a classic example... the Chagossian islanders being removed from their homes to make way for the American military base on Diego Garcia ... leads in to this one through the often-suggested thought that international adoption is in essence the same sort of thing.

Rather than blast away widely at the picture of children taken from countries to join families in others, I'd like to focus... more

With the World Bank big in the news now, I could be writing today about corruption, but since I just did that I'll be focusing instead on the more up-beat and... more