I've mentioned and reviewed Kari Grady Grossman's book "Bones That Float, A Story of Adopting Cambodia", and recently had the opportunity to interview the author in the course of an international blog book tour.

As this was coming about, a story broke from Cambodia... more

Whether you're considering international adoption, in the process, or have already adopted, global issues of adoption may be ... should be ... of even greater interest and concern than for the regular man-on-the-street without direct connections. Our children do not appear out of a vacuum, but become available for adoption through circumstances that vary widely, but often have similar themes. Poverty, war, disease, starvation, upheaval, death ... all make their dark mark and destroy lives and hopes and dreams and options. How organizations funded... 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

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

Kailee Wells, an international adoptee born in China, fell victim to Severe Aplastic Anemia at the age of five. Five years of perpetual transfusions, immuno-suppressant drugs and heart-stoppingly close calls followed. The only long-term hope was finding a perfectly matched bone marrow donor who would agree to provide tissue for a transplant.

In hopes of finding a possible donor among the Asian and Pacific Islander population... more

Contrary to what some may think, Jan Baker and I very often think alike. Not assumed to be a common phenomenon between birth moms and adoptive parents, the more we learn, the more we alike we find ourselves to be.

Case in point ... today's blog posts.

As I was sitting down to write about an international adoptee's recent bone marrow transplant, I scrolled to see what else people have been writing about... more

"Bones That Float: A Story of Adopting Cambodia" is more than a book; it's a movement!" says Kari Grady Grossman, the book's author. Determined to make a difference for the positive, Kari turned down a publishing deal with Beacon Press and opened her own company ... fixing the date of publication to coincide with the anniversary of the day the Khmer Rouge began the forced evacuation of Phnom Penh ... to assure that every penny possible made... more

" ['Bones that Float'] ... is truly a gift for every adoptive family out there." This quote came from an adoptive mom after reading Kari Grady Grossman's wonderful new book about the Cambodia she came to know and love through her family's adoption journey.

Much more than a story of one child and one family, "Bones that Float: A Story of Adopting Cambodia" is a tapestry of Cambodian lives, past, present and future, that conveys context and encourages... more

There's no doubt that adoption is a hot topic these days. For starters, Nickelodeon is coming out with a cartoon voiced by a young adoptee from China, and there are a couple of books getting press at the moment that have adoption-related... more

The International Adoptee Congress has put out a call for participants in a film project presently called "Voices of Adoption".

To all domestic and internationally adopted individuals, fellow members of the adoption community are creating a feature length documentary, “Voices of Adoption” (working title) that will serve... more