Any look at Africa adoptions can be complicated, as this story from Nigeria proves. With international Africa adoptions all being country-specific, a lack of understanding of just how things work can cause a world of problems. In all aspects of adoption, educating yourself is the first and most important step, and trying to do adopt without going through every single on of the steps can lead to heartache.

A Nigerian-born, Canadian citizen adopted a Nigerian child, and is now... more

An early, warm wet season is being blamed for one of the worst outbreaks of Dengue Fever to hit Cambodia and the rest of SE Asia in recent history.

A British adoptive father, along with other volunteers, set up a UK Registered Charity, The Cambodia Children's... more

One needn't tread far into the world of the anti-adoption brigade ... often not-too-cleverly disguised as Planet Reform ... to come across attempts to smear the words adoption and trafficking together into a hoped-for interlocked combo that will forever regurgitate simultaneously. Not only the words, of course, but I gather some figure they're a good place to start the business of trying to make adoption leave a bad taste in the mouth.

Offered... more

Continued from the previous post.

As politically incorrect as it may sound, as insensitive as it may appear to birth mothers or adult adoptees, the reality I know spells out quite clearly that if the world was a bit more perfect than it is today, there would be more adoptions, not fewer.

When I hear people trashing adoption ... throwing it into the same pot as trafficking and making insinuations about adoptive parents... more

Continuing from the previous post where I was talking about care for disabled kids in Iraq.

Before anyone starts accusing me of any sort of bias here, let me expand my angst to include other areas that repulse me.

I'll start with the millions of young girls subjected to genital mutilation ... a practice that is still most often looked... more

The story out of Iraq a while back about the orphanage inhabitants found bound and starving keeps repeating on me, resonating on so many levels that I'm not yet able to leave it rest.

When first reported, I wrote about it from the angle of what can happen when adoption is not an option.

A bit later, it was ... more

For anyone following the saga of the of subterfuge and slime that started when I picked apart a poorly written attempt at inflammatory insults aimed at adoptive parents, I am humorously annoyed to announce that yet another complete web page of more of the same has been posted here on the "Family Preservation" blog. Mirah Riben... more

I'm happy to report that even though the movement to put a halt to the option of international adoption continues to tick over in the US, other parts of the world are catching on to how right it is to present the option of families to children in other countries. In Iceland, for instance, the Iceland Adoption Society is investigating adoption by Icelandic families of children from African nations.

“We are... more

I'm tempted to kick myself for making much of Mirah (aka Marsha) Riben's latest spew of mediocre pap designed to turn Mothers Day into a drive-by slapping.

Please don't misunderstand; I'm not regretting pointing out the poor quality of the prose, even though the simpy writing does speak for itself, or her agenda-encumbered POV that reduces any part of the big picture to the narrowest of misleading apertures.... more

It's not been long since I felt compelled to address a poorly composed bit of tripe from anti-adoption swill-tosser and Origins co-founder Mirah (aka Marsha) Riben.

The last time, she was slinging words that accused international adoptive parents of being racists and perpetrators of "cultural genocide".

(For a look at this from an cultural anthropologists view, ... more