Family Forum / Parenting / Adoption / June 2009

http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/06/26/opinion/1194841209358/bloggingheads-ca
sh-for-babies.html
Bloggingheads: Cash for Babies?
Steven Waldman of Beliefnet and William Saletan of Slate debate the
idea of reducing abortion by paying pregnant women.

http://news.aol.com/article/mother-child-rape-adoption/539579
Birth Mother Sues After Meeting ChildWoman Claims State Aided Reunion
With Child of Rape
(June 23) -- A lawsuit filed in New Jersey brings up issues of privacy

http://newsblog.projo.com/2009/06/ap-working-adop.html
Bill on adoptees' access to birth records to be heard
Wed, Jun 24, 2009
By Philip Marcelo

http://www.tmz.com/2009/06/25/mother-of-jacksons-kids-reacts/3
Mother of Jackson's Kids Reacts
Posted Jun 25th 2009 6:10PM by TMZ Staff
We're told Michael Jackson's ex-wife, Debbie Rowe, is "inconsolable."

http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/10/young-single-and-pregnant-what-now/
http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/thoughts-from-and-about-emmie/
http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/16/choosing-not-to-keep-the-baby/
http://parenting.blogs.nytimes ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/world/africa/25orphan.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=adopt
ion&st=cse
DEATH IN BIRTH
Fragile Tanzanian Orphans Get Help After Mothers Die
By DENISE GRADY

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/23/obama-legal-team-wants-de_n_190852.html
Obama Legal Team Wants Defendants' Rights Limited
The Huffington Post  MARK SHERMAN  April 23, 2009 08:29 PM EST
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is asking the Supreme Court to

Gack alert.
http://www.tampabay.com/features/relationships/article1011883.ece
Adoption of baby should be a win-win situation for all
By Carolyn Hax, Washington Post

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/jun/21/dear-mariella-adoption
Dear Mariella
I am in my 40s and have always known I was adopted. I wrote to my
birth mother, but she didn't respond. Should I try to contact my half-

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090706/valenti
The Virginity Movement, Rebranded
by JESSICA VALENTI
June 17, 2009

http://www.thewhig.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1620079
Keep orphaned children in their home environment
When news recently surfaced about Madonna's second adoption of a
Malawian child, we couldn't help but be concerned about what kind of a

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1193785/Misguided-Madonnas-just-helpin
g-baby-traffickers.html
Misguided Madonna's just helping the baby traffickers
By ANNA FEUCHTWANG
18th June 2009

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/jun/12/madonna-mercy-malawi
Madonna, Mercy and Malawi: her fight to adopt a second African child
Three years ago a storm of protest blew up when Madonna adopted David
Banda from a Malawian orphanage. Today the country's highest court is

The link:
http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2009/05/van_buren_county_ju
dge_has_his.html
The short bits:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/these-boys-deserve-so-much-more-than-i-can-g
ive-them/article1174325/
These boys deserve so much more than I can give them
Six years after adopting two boys, Michelle Brau was still unable to
form a bond with them. Now they're in a new home. She ...