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Book Review: Chicken Soup for the Adopted Soul

by Pam Connell

30 Apr 2009 02:07 PM

Published just last year, Chicken Soup for the Adopted Soul is another in the series of "Chicken Soup for the Soul" books which seek to offer comfort and healing to the spirit. As many of you know, the series includes fifty-plus books offering this classic comfort food for the souls of.....

Adoption in the News this Week: from ER to Madonna to the Hague

by Pam Connell

06 Apr 2009 10:53 PM

Adoption has certainly been in the media this week. As my fellow blogger Michelle has noted in the popular culture blog, Madonna's petition to adopt a second child from Malawi was denied by a judge in Malawian court.

Adoption Plot Alert-ER Series Finale at Earlier Time Tonight

by Pam Connell

02 Apr 2009 01:11 PM

I'm always curious to see how adoption is portrayed in the general media. Last month I talked about an adoption storyline on NBC's hit medical drama ER. ER (for Emergency Room) is ending its 15-year run tonight in a 2-hour series finale which will air at 9 p.m.

April Fools: Three Things You Thought You Knew About Adoption

by Pam Connell

01 Apr 2009 04:43 PM

There are some things that "everybody knows" about adoption. This "knowledge" is so well-known, of course, that facts and first-person testimonies, even the evidence of one's own eyes, apparently aren't effective.

Embryo Adoption, Part Two

by Pam Connell

31 Mar 2009 09:07 AM

My last blog was on a relatively new type of adoption, embryo adoption. The visibility of embryo adoption will, I predict, increase quite a bit for three reasons.

Another Type of Adoption: Embryo Adoption

by Pam Connell

29 Mar 2009 06:55 PM

Soon after I became an adoption blogger for Families.

Adoption in the Little House TV series, Season 9 and Final Movie

by Pam Connell

24 Feb 2009 02:28 AM

This is the last in a series of blogs dealing with adoption in the popular, still-airing-in-reruns show Little House on the Prairie. In season nine's two-part opener, "Times are Changing", Almanzo's brother dies. Their niece Jenny will now live with them.

Adoption in the Little House TV Series, Season 8

by Pam Connell

23 Feb 2009 12:04 AM

Although this blog (one of a series on adoption storylines in the Little House on the Prairie television show) focuses on season eight, the two episodes ("Growing Pains" and "Uncle Jed") which continue the story of the new Ingalls family members James and Cassandra were discussed in the season s...

Adoption in the Little House TV Series, Season Seven

by Pam Connell

18 Feb 2009 10:44 AM

My last blogs have talked about adoption storylines in "Little House on the Prairie", the 1970s TV series that still airs in reruns several times a day. You can access the first blog in the series by clicking here.

Adoption in the Little House TV series, seasons 4, 5 and 6

by Pam Connell

17 Feb 2009 10:00 AM

This is a series of blogs on adoption references in well-known TV shows or books that our children will likely come across. The last few blogs have focused on the TV show Little House on the Prairie. You can find the first blog in the series by clicking here.



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