Since confusion is the thought for today, I might as well go the whole hog on it and take my befuddlement all the way to China.

As we all know, unless the past year has been spent as the unhappy guest of aliens intent on learning how humans tick ... we don't ... China revamped their adoption regulations and put new restrictions on international adoptive parents into place... more

I'm way confused this evening as I try to catch up with my blog commitments after spending so much of my day running around like a headless chicken in attempts to track down the cause of a fever and stomach pain in my son.

I started out responding to a follow to the inspiration for Monday's post, an unapologetic dressing-down of those leaving comments lodging complaints against what the writer refers to as an article "heartless, disgusting, stupid and paid".

Not... more

The disgusting piece of less-than-human rubbish Interpol has been looking for was captured in Thailand this morning, and now we can all sit back and hope there is a punishment that will do him justice.

Canadian pedophile Christopher Neil has been preying on children ... okay, in a nod to my journalistic training, I'll add the word 'allegedly' here, but he's guilty as sin, and this is a blog, not the NY Times ... for years.

Scenes of him sexually abusing very young Cambodian... more

Sophiline Cheam Shapiro of the Khmer Arts Academy is getting well deserved accolades this week. First, in the New York Times with a glowing review of her latest work: “Pamina Devi: A Cambodian Magic Flute".

She was also featured in an American Public Radio production "The Story" that can be accessed as a podcast here.

In case you're not already... more

After banning adoptions from India in June of this year, Demark has shifted course and is now again allowing its citizens to adopt Indian children.

After a media-festooned frenzy over allegations from a man claiming to have put his kids in an orphanage "temporarily", then supposedly being devastated to learn that they'd been adopted by Danes and whooping and hollering and generally raising a ruckus, the Danish program slammed shut.

Now those claims have apparently... more

Continued from the previous post where China has been the topic.

China is now getting ready to host the Olympics, and as Grant pointed out in his blog, the upcoming hoo-haa that goes along with is a very big deal and the Chinese are keen to keep attention focused on good stuff.

Perhaps because people are actually paying some attention at the moment, and because the poop is hitting the fan in places like Burma, Sudan and North Korea in very big ways, China's propping up... more

Continued from the previous post where we've been looking at adoptions from China.

Does China's system of government, which of course includes their system for international adoptions, show itself to be an exemplary example countries like Cambodia and Guatemala should emulate? Should that standard be the template others should mirror?

Some would have it that the reason China's adoption process is so rarely criticized has everything to do with the country's status as a burgeoning economic powerhouse and political hot potato and nothing to do with the realities of its adoption... more

Our China Adoption Blogger, Grant, wrote recently about Burma and how the horrid events in that country could eventually impact adoptions from China.

He is no doubt right, and for families waiting ... and waiting and waiting, as the timeframe for adoptions from China just gets longer and longer ... the anxiety levels for parents in the process must be rising through the roof.

As we all know the wait is torture, no matter what, and being aware of global events that through... more

There is more news from Cambodian here, and here, and adoption-related news of a more general nature here on the Adoption News Blog.

Anyone planning to be in Cambodia, here's... more

Sri Lankans are concerned that Cambodia has become base for the Tamil Tigers, their arms smuggling and human trafficking.

Their weapons purchases are more sophisticated now, but the criminal infrastructure put in place in the early 1990s, when Cambodia was its primary arms bazaar, is still there, enabling drugs and human smuggling, credit card fraud and money laundering.

In yet another "ain't that just rich"... more