Many adopters continue to insist that China is somehow ‘the most ethical’ of the international adoption sending counties, as if a Chinese adoption is somehow some kind of “Gold Standard” in the realm of adoption ethics, (and yes, the term “Gold Standard” in relation to international adoption ethics have been used to my face.) Never […]

These are just a few of the recent stories that have crossed my desk as of late that I wanted to draw reader’s attention to. The development of “artificial sperm” and the UK study on European fertility tourism are both important milestones. Bastardette’s recent pieces on the development of artificial sperm- ARTIFICIAL SPERM ON THE […]

So, why has the blog remained so quiet over the last month or so? The short answer is there has been so much going on Adoption-wise for me as of late that I haven’t had the time to devote to blogging it. Sometimes the doing simply overtakes the writing and documenting thereof. June and the […]

Marley/Bastardette has done a post on what can only be termed a nauseating diary and comment thread over on Daily Kos- REVOLTING ENTITLEMENT BLATHER ON DKOS: “ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION IS NOT PERVERSE” Bastardette, my partner Mike Doughney, and I have a number of comments on the thread, though some of the posts on the thread have […]

Friday May 29th Kylie and Tyler Gumm were murdered by their adoptive father, James Gumm, in Oregon before he turned the gun on himself. While there are a fair number of stories covering the deaths, there’s been very little coverage of the fact that the children were adoptees. Here are a few links by way […]

No time to blog at the moment. Go see the Daily Bastardette for details from today’s hearing on California AB 372-. For once, it’s a bit of what could be good news, CALIFORNIA AB 372 SENT TO SUSPENSE FILE as Marley said, The committee has until May 25 to retrieve it from suspension, but because […]

The CARE-tastrophe continues unabated. Just when you thought the mess out in California couldn’t get any stupider, AB 372 now apparently is projected to come with an 8 million dollar start up cost. Yes, you read that right $8 million, even as California is in the depths of fiscal crisis and budget hearings. (It’s really […]

As part of the Mother’s Day-a-palooza all over the net Sunday, Slate included a piece focusing on international adoption corruption with profiles of ten cases, The Orphan Trade, A look at families affected by corrupt international adoptions. As always, the article leads off with an assumption, that most couples would never willingly participate in the […]

So this is the second Mother’s Day since I began blogging about adoption. I’ve already said pretty much everything I needed to say in last year’s, Mothers’ Day and my day Since I first wrote that piece, it’s been another year of ‘the more things change, the more they stay the same.’ May 10th, 2009 […]

The court-appointed monitor’s latest report on D.C. Child and Family Services Agency points out that the number of children being adopted out of shelters and foster homes has slowed. Between 2005 and 2008, adoptions finalized in the District dropped from more than 250 a year to fewer than 100, the report said. The Washington Post […]