This continues on from the last post. During Gay's house building trip to Cambodia last year, she spent some time at AOA, my kids' former orphanage, on our behalf, dropping off gifts and recent pictures of our kids for nannies.... 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

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

"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

Increasing violence in southern Thailand is being blamed for creating at least another 2000 orphans in that country. In compensation, those losing relatives have been presented 6000 baht ($184.05).

Often touted as one of the 'cleanest' international adoption programs in the world, fifty-six Thai children were placed in American families last year. See the State... more