A post I wrote last week inspired comments having to do with separating the issue of poverty from any equation that might mean adoption.

Hunger and malnutrition are a huge problem all over Africa and the rest of the developing world. However, it doesn't mean these kids are not with family that care for them and love them.

In most cases, these families are attempting to keep it together. They are still sending them to school... they are trying! These kids are not in the streets or in orphanages. Their families haven’t given them up. That is why... more

Under a "better late than never" banner, here are some happenings from Cambodia ...

Thanks to a heads up from mom to a Cam-born kid and author of "Bones That Float, A Story of Adopting Cambodia, Kari Grady Grossman, there is something to share on the good works of another adoptive parent.

Ken McBain, a lovely man I had the pleasure of meeting in a restaurant in Phnom Penh while we were in the country for Cj... more

For some great shots of the Independence Day celebrations, check out Mongkol for a good bit of the feel of the day.

This year marks fifty-four years since gaining independence after 90 years of French rule.

Here's the message sent from the White House in... more

The Times of India is reporting s significant drop in the number of adoptions from that country, saying that both domestic and international adoptions have seen a reduction of almost 40 percent between 2001 and 2003.

A recent report is cited that researched information collected from more than twenty-two countries that have added internationally adopted children to families of citizens and found that only 0.034%... more

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

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