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Behavioral Problems in Children

Kerry — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 08:33:47 -0600

Behavior problems come in all different sizes for parents with their children, and in many cases the behaviors seem to defy adult logic. All one has to do is a simple web-search of Behavioral Problems to see how many any one search engine can find.

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A Baby For All Seasons

Niels — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 15:38:09 -0600

Children being viewed as a commodity, that can be bought to fit the parents needs; it is expressedly voiced, by so-called superstar Ricky Martin. Wanting a child from each continent reads to me like words from a collector not from a parent to be.

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Mary's Moral Decision: Lost Role Model Behavior?

Kerry — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:21:09 -0700

Given the holiday season and mother-child theme that is celebrated by so many religious Christians this time of year, it seems appropriate for an adoptee to ask the question: what other option would Mary have had for herself and her child, given her pregnancy and unmarried status when she learned she could take Joseph as her legal husband and move far away to give birth to her baby, fathered by another? [The Christmas Story from the book of Matthew can be found here: http://holydays.tripod.com/chris

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Adoptive Parent Evaluations

almost_human — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 22:48:00 -0600

Does anybody know exactly the specifics of an adoptive parent evaluation are?

I think I read somewhere else (in one particular state) that it consists of 100 questions and a psychological examination.
I'd like to see those questions - they obviously aren't adequate!

I would love to see these get tightened up.

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Politicians who use children

neophyte — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:26:19 -0600

I was reading this article about Boys Town, and how children from this orphanage were used sexually by politicians and their socially elite friends. The documentary, "Conspiracy of Silence" can be found here - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=866739408240639313

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"Positive" Adoption Language (aka "propaganda")

Kerry — Sun, 25 May 2008 11:19:41 -0600

Please read the following text, and tell me just how accurate this PAL crap, (as exampled on Holt's media page of parental terms and use...http://www.holtintl.org/media/language.shtml ) reads by those "touched" by the international adoption industry:

Written by an an attorney-turned-writed/adoptive mother to two Korean boys

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Herding the Flock: An American Industry Filled with Farm-Land Foundlings

Kerry — Fri, 30 May 2008 06:51:45 -0600

The American response to Baby Farming has been the following:

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The Cost of Cultural Sensitivity -- who keeps losing?

Kerry — Sat, 24 May 2008 06:43:28 -0600

I read an interesting article about the duty and obligation teachers and schools have to the social-learning of it's child-population. [Religion in the History-Social Science Textbook Adoption] Of course, each school lesson must make the tax-paying parents happy, because when the parents are happy, the school-board is happy. I have grown to accept happiness is found in the superficial, especially when it comes to public bureaucracy...

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Pregnancy v. Placement: a parent's perspective

Kerry — Sat, 17 May 2008 11:27:43 -0600

One of the world's most famous adoptive mothers made a comment I'd like to quote:

“Like most women, I love being pregnant.” She added that pregnancy makes “you feel like more like a woman than you've ever felt. You just feel like everything about your body is there for your baby.” Angelina Jolie

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How would you respond to the following information?

neophyte — Sat, 10 May 2008 08:58:42 -0600

Your Life. Your Baby. Your Choice.

Facing an unplanned pregnancy can be very difficult and scary, and deciding what to do will be even harder.

While you may feel totally alone at this time, know that you aren't! According to the March of Dimes, nearly 60 percent of pregnancies in the United States are unplanned.

That is to say, millions of women have been in your shoes.

Keeping perspective at this time is critical. The most important thing to remember is that you have a choice. Every woman does.

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Children in the welfare system

neophyte — Sat, 10 May 2008 08:47:36 -0600

What's the difference between a child in a welfare system, and a child in the foster-care system? Are they the same thing?

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Trends in Teens: Any RADical Discoveries Made Yet?

Kerry — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:03:44 -0600

A suicide attempt is often seen as the very depressed person's version of "seeking closure" to a very hopeless and helpless desperate situation. It's the permanant answer to a temporary condition that needs to be recognized sooner (than later) by friends, adults and intimate partners so appropraite assitance can be given to the life that does not have to be lost.

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Celebrities and child placement

neophyte — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:39:36 -0600

I read a comment that really hit the nail on the head and pissed me off about celebrities thinking they can stroll into another country and buy a baby, thinking that's going to save that child from a miserable life.

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Orphanages

Kerry — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:13:37 -0600

I was reading in wikipedia the size and number of orphanages in the world... does anyone know which was/is the largest insititution for children, and if it can be toured?

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Sex Slaves in the USA

Kerry — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:21:03 -0700

NBC's Meredith Vieira examines human trafficking and prostitution in the U.S.

TRANSCRIPT

updated 4:38 p.m. ET, Sat., Dec. 1, 2007

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Letter from Representative Jeb Bradley

Niels — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:27:32 -0700

Today the grape-vines again whispered and brought to me a letter by Representatvive Jeb Bradley, concerning Romania's earlier decision to close it's borders for international adoption. For those unfamiliar with the situation: At the time Romania decided to institute a moratorium on international adoption after years of what can be seen as an exodus of Romanian children. Upon instituting the moratorium there were several children already assigned to prospective adopters, but whose adoption was not finalized. These became known as so-called pipeline cases.

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Am I alone in my fear of...

Kerry — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 06:47:33 -0700

clowns?

<shudder, shake and shiver!>

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Moving History

Kerry — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:48:13 -0700

I'm curious... are there museums or exhibits that feature the history of Child Placement anywhere?

Is adoption, with the preserved facts as they really were and are, included in any of this?

I would think there are lots of children of adoptees who would like to know more about their parents from broken heritages.

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25 cents and a canary

Niels — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:47:23 -0700

When reading the article The paradoxical rationalization of modern adoption, I noticed the deeply sad yet at the same time funny account of a baby being sold for 25 cents and a canary. It is taken from Preventive Treatment of Neglected Children (links to a 18.5 MB PDF file), the final book of a four volumes prepared for the Eighth International Prison Congress of 1910.

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Everything has it's place, even the mob in "human waste control"

Kerry — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 06:54:06 -0700

It always has amused me how people don't make simple connections when it comes to Child Placement, Safe Haven Laws and little things like dumpsters, dark alleys, abortion clinics, churches, health-care clinics, housing developments and the like.

Old-World Thinking isn't just for the movies.

Child trafficking is real. It's out there, and it's marketed in ways that's cleverly disguised, and quite frankly, it's disgusting.

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and not even a refund...

Niels — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 15:30:37 -0700

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A Mother's Sacrifice

Kerry — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 18:34:07 -0700

The following article was sent to me, but I have to preface it with a story of my own. When I first discovered a lump in my breast, I had two small children. Other than not knowing anything about my medical history, and having complete trust in my beloved Ob/Gyn who respected my adopted status, my biggest concerns revolved around my babies: IF it's the worst-case scenario, do I wear a wig, or scarf, and do I let them see me cry?

I didn't have much time, since the surgery took place within the week of discovery.

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Family Preservation, Foster-care and Adoption

Niels — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:43:56 -0700

Last couple of days I've reading up on family preservation programmes and though a necessary instrument in Child Welfare Services it does very little to prevent the many unnecessary adoptions taking place. Family preservation as it is now organized is part of the programs Child Protective Services can use in case a child is assumed to be in danger within it's natural family. Children who would otherwise end up in the foster-care system, due to family preservation programmes have a bigger chance staying at home.

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Anyone just go up and ask your parents,

neophyte — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 07:21:36 -0700

"How much did you pay for me?"

or their foster parents, "how much do you get for keeping me?"

or their birth mother, "how much did you get for selling me?"

Anyone get an answer?

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Critical question regarding post-placement

Kerry — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 06:55:25 -0700

What services currently exist, specific for abused adoptees?

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Pieces of home-life, how Anne Frank lived for 25 months

Kerry — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 14:42:34 -0700

NBC boasts having a brief video clip of the attic in Amsterdam in which Anne Frank lived for 25 months, where she hid from Nazi's when she was a young girl.

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Rocky beginnings

Kerry — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 18:47:14 -0700

What if you fell in love with someone with a shady past or criminal record?

Is the love of a good person powerful enough to change the evils of a bad past?

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Coin-Toss and Family Loss

Kerry — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:48:28 -0700

The first coins

"The world's first coins appeared around 600 B.C., jingling around in the pockets of the Lydians, a kingdom tied to ancient Greece and located in modern-day Turkey. They featured the stylized head of a lion and were made of electrum, an alloy of gold and silver.

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