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Fair warning: This post is a bit controversial. (That seems to be my role among the Adopting Mamas these days.) Please feel free to comment, but remember that this is meant to be a safe forum for all members of the adoption triad. In other words, be nice. I saw this story on the Today Show [...] What does eating meat have to do with Infertility Awareness? Well, nothing, really. But neither does PETA’s audacious and mean-spirited give-away of a vasectomy for Infertility Awareness Week. Neither does their response: “It happened to be National Infertility Awareness Week, which we saw as the perfect opportunity to turn the conversation [...] One of the aspects of the current state of adoption that I’ve always thought needed to change has been the ease with which an unethical agency or attorney can circumvent the rights of the biological father. Each state has their own laws regarding the ways a putative father needs to be notified and parental rights [...] A Florida appeals court Wednesday struck down a state law barring gay men and lesbians from adoption on the basis of equal protection under law. The Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal upheld a trial court ruling that Florida’s explicit ban was unconstitutional, noting that the state’s adoption law required officials to assess potential adoptive parents [...] Basically, all anyone seems to be able to talk about these days is the decision of a Tennessee woman to sned her adopted son back to Russia. And now the moment we’ve all been dreading: the suspension of Russian adoptions until some mutually agreed-upon procedures are put in place. So what do you think? Is Russia [...] Found this blog: Be The Answer, that’s calling for people to blog about their Russian adoption (or one of someone they know) tomorrow, April 15th. Love the idea of showing our support for all of our IA friends, so thought we’d pass it on! (You can submit the name of your blog on their facebook page [...] This one is just disgusting. Apparently a woman in Tennessee sent her young son unaccompanied to Russia because she wanted to send him back. Like he was a faulty cell phone or something. It makes me want to throw up. Of course, this woman is crazy (provided that she did, in fact do what she’s accused of doing, [...] We try and post news articles, opinions and information here at AdoptingMamas on Mondays. So here’s a roundup of adoption articles this week: From our International Desk Interest in Ethiopia, other countries spikes with Haitian adoptions still closed. In Domestic News: The gay Florida couple at the center of [...] Last week, a friend mentioned in her Facebook status that she wasn’t fond of having to check off an “Adopted” box for her daughter. I read it, but I didn’t think about it much at the time. A few days later, we received our own census form. And I had to check off my own “Adopted” [...] Whenever there is a world tragedy on the scale of the earthquakes in Haiti, we all have a tendency to feel helpless at our inability to actually do something of significance to help. We see the pictures of the devastation, the death, the loss – and the children who have lost everything, sometimes their parents. [...] |
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