Cheerios: What is Wrong With the Gay Adoption Commercial
A Canadian commercial of a cereal company made the last few days the rounds all over the internet before it will hit the TV channels this week. https://www.youtube.com/...). You see two good-looking...
View ArticleTransracial Adoption in the U.S.: 'Unbearably Alone and Hopelessly on Display'
I have never been in Billings, MT but I've seen pictures and it looks like a fine city surrounded by great nature, a city that seems rightly nicknamed Star of the Big Sky Country. I wouldn't mind...
View ArticleA Small Footnote From the Adoption Province: Land of Gazillion Adoptees v. Who?
A friend wrote me recently: We're all liabilities at one point or another
View ArticleOn Colonial Fairs and ‘De-Colonizing’ American History in Elementary School
The Netherlands, the small European country I was born in, was once an enormous colonial power. We occupied and ruled parts of North and South America, Africa and Asia: areas and countries that are...
View ArticleGrowing a White TV Dynasty. On a Scary Transracial Adoption
You might know it by now: Patriarch Phil Robertson of the hugely successful reality TV-show Duck Dynasty has a new grandson. The baby is the fifth child of his youngest son Jep, who with his wife...
View ArticleAction: Adam Crapser, Detained for deportation. From: Adoptionland...
Adam Crapser, a Korean American adoptee who was placed in deportation proceedings at the beginning of 2015, was placed in the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma Washington by Immigration and Customs...
View ArticleThe Barbarity of History in Fourth Grade
In Walter Benjamin's famous and famously difficult essay The Concept of History, said to be his last full work before he committed suicide in the second year of the war, the Jewish German philosopher...
View ArticleModern Adoption. How to successfully shop for kids
This is how you do it, according to two men in the New York Post.First you decide whether you want kids through surrogacy or through adoption. When surrogacy is too expensive, go for adoption.Then...
View ArticleOn the venerable American Bar Association or the Myth of Normal and Good in...
Since November 2013 I, white adoptive co-dad of two domestically adopted black children, started to document the daily news on adoption and adoption related issues. I searched the web not only for...
View ArticleA Gesture of Tenderness. On the Public Display of Affection
He was the first, and I was very much in love with him. Carlo was out, dressed flamboyantly, had black suede glam-rock boots, gave ultimate care to his black reddish colored hair and used make up. I...
View ArticleThe God-Abusers and Adoption
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vainTo be honest: I don’t know God. And I don’t know what He, if He is out there, wants from America, from the rest of the World or from me. I think...
View ArticleElizabeth Bartholet and Her Personal Civil Right in Adoption
In an op-ed of May 24 in the Boston Globe well-known adoption advocate Prof. Elizabeth Bartholet and less well-known adoption advocate Professor Paulo Barozzo try to make the case that international...
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