Family Forum / Parenting / Adoption / December 2007

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Marley

There's an interesting article in the NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/21/health/21cnd-foster.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
Researchers in Romania found that kids who were in foster care
averaged IQs of 81, kids in institutions averaged 73, and kids in

Your ""mutual real world friend named Mike"" is pulling your leg.
Long ago somebody in the hyena pack came up
with some kind of record about a guy with the
same first and last name as mine who worked at

Here is a site that was fun and entertaining!Jeana P.--Free Sex For
Dummies--http://www.freesexfordummies.com

http://www.motherjones.com/news/update/2007/12/international-adoption-one-way-di
alogue.html
International Adoption, It's a One-Way Dialogue
News: When adoptive parents like myself try to keep the lid on
controversy, we do ourselves--and our kids--no favors.

Diplomat "dumped his adopted child because she did not fit in"
Times Online, December 14, 2007
http://www.timesonl ine.co.uk/ tol/news/ world/europe/ article3048747. ece
by Roger Boyes in Berlin

A friend of my wife's learned Thursday that her 65 y.o. cousin is her
brother; he apparently learened only a few days (or hours) before she
did.  Not surprisingly, they're going through a particular form of
hell at the moment.

Send the man your thoughts.  He didn't ask for mine.
J.
Giving up baby for adoption a true gift
HARLAN COHEN

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/284208
Liberals introduce amended adoption bill.Previous law struck down by
judge as a violation of privacy rights
Dec 10, 2007 05:09 PM

Adopters want to bend facts to suit their agenda.
Dr. Phil is an idiot, but the no amount of Social Worker
dogma is going to change the simple fact that
blood really IS thicker than water.

http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-opker135498382dec13,0,2863964.story
Dr. Phil disrespects adoption
BY JENNA KERN-RUGILE | Freelance writer Jenna Kern-Rugile is a
frequent contributor to Newsday

http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=87831&src=110
Daily Herald [Chicago]
Foreign adoptions down by 15 percent
Associated Press                               Published: 12/1/2007 12:22 AM

We were shocked at how many bright, wise, loving---indeed even
"savvy"---parents did not know the single most important fact that
must be true if one is to prevail in a custody dispute. And this must
be the best kept secret in the world, because even extremely

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22887154-5001026,00.html
Angelina Jolie adoption torture threats
By Stephen Bevan
December 10, 2007 12:00am

http://www.lsj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071126/NEWS04/71126001/1001/NEWS
Republicans criticize state's foster care and child services system
Midday update
Derek Wallbank