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National Adoption Day this Saturday

by Pam Connell

16 Nov 2009 01:08 AM

Each November is National Adoption Month. Many adoption organizations and adoptive parent groups have activities. But in recent years the centerpiece of National Adoption Month has been National Adoption Day, when adoptions are celebrated in a festive manner.

Star's Death Occasions a Reminder of When and How to Mention Adoption

by Pam Connell

22 Oct 2009 07:14 PM

Other bloggers in this blog have written about Positive Adoption Language and the impact of adoption words. I'm hardly a "word usage Nazi" on the warpath for political correctness, but two things this week have left me wishing our culture would be just a little bit more sensitive to my children.

Katherine Heigl and Josh Kelley's Bundle of Joy

by Pam Connell

02 Oct 2009 03:12 PM

With apologies to our fearless Popular Culture bloggers, I must admit that I am usually woefully ignorant of TV and music personalities. Nor am I usually a reader of People magazine.

Mercy for Madonna

by Pam Connell

20 Jun 2009 07:52 AM

Madonna will be allowed to adopt four-year-old Chifundo (in English the name means "Mercy") James after all, Malawian judges have decided. The three judges of Malawi's highest court, in a June 12 session, overruled a lower court's denial of Madonna's adoption petition.

Court is Adjourned--for Now--in Madonna's Adoption Appeal

by Pam Connell

09 May 2009 01:29 PM

Madonna's efforts to adopt Malawian child Chifundo (Mercy) James are at a pause. The court heard arguments in her appeal this past Monday but did not immediately set a date for the second hearing, at which a decision is expected to be made.

Adoption Storyline on "ER"

by Pam Connell

28 Feb 2009 09:01 AM

Once a regular watcher of the NBC drama ER, I've gradually cut off almost all television watching. But I may have a reason to start watching ER again-purely for professional reasons, of course. No, I'm not going to medical school. ER is in the middle of an adoption storyline.

Lifetime Movie about Foster Care airs Saturday

by Pam Connell

27 Feb 2009 04:59 PM

Tomorrow night (Saturday February 28), the cable channel Lifetime will air an original movie about the foster care system, and more specifically about the dilemma of one teen, raised in foster care (and sometimes abused there), about to turn 18 and "age out" of the system.

Safe Haven Law Being Used to Abandon Older Children, not Babies for Adoption

by Pam Connell

20 Nov 2008 02:30 AM

The governor of Nebraska has called the state legislature back to a special session to deal with unintended repercussions of Nebraska's Safe Haven law, which took effect this past summer.

Adoption Nightmares

by Pam Connell

31 Oct 2008 10:12 PM

Many Americans remember the "Baby Jessica" case. In 1993, the U.S.

Will Changing Attitudes Toward Disabilities Affect the Future of International Adoption in China?

by Pam Connell

25 Sep 2008 03:41 AM

My last blog featured another profile of an elite athlete who was adopted-Jessica Tatiana Long, who was adopted from a Russian orphanage at 13 months of age, and had her legs amputated below the knee when she was 18 months old.



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