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

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

Adoption as a topic is coming up so often in the international community and global consciousness that it's getting to the point that any big event that doesn't in some way touch upon, feature or highlight some aspect of the adoption world would seem to be missing something. At the moment, as anyone living on the planet knows ... even those of us on tiny islands in the middle of nowhere without much news coming in ... the big event in the film industry... more

Of the 407 Cambodian children adopted by Americans in 2001, the 405 in 2000, and the fewer since ... leaving almost 5 million kids under 14 in the country in whatever circumstance life presented ... there may very well have been a child that, left in Cambodia, may have contributed to the good of the people, the culture and the country.

It's impossible to predict how any one person's life may end up impacting the world, and it could... more

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

"Cultural genocide" is a term that gets tossed around the international adoption world like a hacky-sack, often with little regard for what culture actually is, but loving the impact the word 'genocide' imparts.

We know genocide,... 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