Family Forum / Parenting / Adoption / October 2007

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/article2773614.ece
A system guaranteed to damage babies
If you want to adopt, you're better off in America
Alice Miles

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article2767331.ece
Foreign Office under pressure as David Miliband puts his family first
Greg Hurst, Political Correspondent
David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, has taken an unspecified period

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/27/wtwins127.xml
Identical twins reunited after 35 years
By Alex Spillius in Washington
Paula Bernstein and Elyse Schein lived very similar lives. They were

Mississippi Criminal Sex Offender Information
This Address First Reported on: 3/5/2000
Offender Last Verified This Address on: 6/5/2006
Name:    Alric Knebel        No photo available. Breaks camera

I ran across the website the other day will clicking onto CNN.
www.dogsindanger.com
It's perfectly appropriate, given the adoption slant.
Warning...it will break you heart if you are an animal lover.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,,2200125,00.html
UN and aid groups criticise 'humanitarian mercenaries'
Angelique Chrisafis in Paris
Friday October 26, 2007

Kathy, I hope all is well with you and that your home isn't anywhere
near the recent wild fires.  Sending raindrops to the San Diego area.
Dad

A situation has come up recently around me that has pushed me to ask
an interesting question -- can a person over the age of 18 be adopted?
This person is still in high school and would be an dependent of the
adopter(s).  If they could be adopted, would they be eligible for all

Increasingly, Rita Arditti reports today, the Grandmothers of the Plaza de
Mayo work through popular youth culture to assist the identity recovery of
young people whose parents disappeared under the military dictatorship.
Story follows announcements.

There is a lot of talk about natural mothers being in the "fog" or not
realizing that they really care about their children.
I don't think this is always the case, I think some mothers just don't
care about their children, I don't think they are the majority, but my

I needed to order some checks, being thoroughly fed up with how long
my "free" checks were taking to arrive. So I cruised the net, looking
for a bargain, looking for something interesting, looking for anything
that would make me feel a teensy bit better when I was spending

can any one tell how to find my adopted child  i met her 4 years ago and
now have no idea whee she is help

I HATE NIGGERS AND JEWS.

I just received some non-identifying info from NY about my birth parents.
My mother was 22 when she gave birth and I was delivered at 40 weeks.  She
was an office worker, unmarried, and gave birth to a daughter 2 years before
I was born.  She was also Catholic.  My father was a ...

Can someone please wake me up if we get any adoption related content here
(or interesting recipes or anything of interest, a good honest decent old
fashioned fuckfest like we all used enjoy, even)
Robin