This little boy is not in prison, but he may as well be. He's committed no crime other than being born in Cambodia to someone who couldn't or wouldn't care for him. He now lives in the Asian Orphans Association home just outside Phnom Penh and has about zero chance of being adopted.

As I write, more than four years have passed since the USA suspended adoptions from Cambodia. The UK followed suit last year and some other European countries have also made it impossible for residents to bring Cambodian children into their families.

To say that the issue of Cambodian... more

I was over on the Reactive Attachment Disorders blog and Nancy’s post on infants got me thinking of just how amazingly lucky we have been. (Thank you, Nancy!)

Sam and Cj were born in Cambodia and came to us through Asian Orphans Association, Sam in 2003 and Cj in July of last year. AOA, like most of Cambodia, struggles and survives on a shoe string. Very little money must go a long way, and they manage somehow to house and feed on the average of one hundred children day in and day out. Since a suspension on Cambodian adoptions was imposed by the US, the UK and a couple of other European countries, things are harder … much harder.

Nonetheless, the children are fed, clothed,... more