Angela Tucker or The Illusion of Bipartisan Collaboration in International...
Angela Tucker is a young black woman, domestically adopted in a white family and the subject of the acclaimed documentary Closure (http://closuredocumentary.com) (2013). The film is a riveting, moving...
View ArticleOn the Rhetorics of Dr. Diane B. Kunz, Esq., Crusader for International Adoption
In an aggressive piece the director of the Center for Adoption Policy in New York, Dr. Diane B. Kunz, Esq. reacts on the dwindling numbers of children who are adopted from abroad in the United States....
View ArticleTo My New York Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Chuck Schumer on International...
Dear Senators, A few years ago the story of a woman who put her 7 year old adopted son on a plane back to where he came from, Russia, made headlines. You must remember the case. The boy was by himself...
View ArticleInternational Adoption. The Times They Aren't a-Changing. From Holt to CHIFF
Last week a delegation of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was expected to visit the US to discuss the problems of exit visa’s of Congolese children adopted by American parents. The issuance of...
View ArticleA New Reading of Adoption. On A Poem by Joan Didion’s Adopted Daughter,...
Everything and everyone in Joan Didion’s memoir Blue Nights about the life and death of her daughter Quintana Roo Dunne is something or somebody. Cakes come from the exquisite bakery Payard on the...
View ArticleCHIFF’s Adoption Perversion or Katie Jay’s Dirt
I really don’t like to do this but sometimes you have to put your hands in the dirt and dig to set the record straight. The dirt is in this case a blog post from May 19 by Katie Jay on her site...
View ArticleMy First Webinar: On an International Adoption Bill, Called CHIFF
I listened for the first time in my life to a webinar. It was organized last Thursday by the people, who are pushing a bill in Congress related to international child welfare and adoption. The bill,...
View ArticleWho Wins? A Photo Contest in Adoptive Families, the Pillar of the Adoption...
The magazine Adoptive Families (AF) is since long the go-to magazine of the powers that be in adoption. It is supported by ads from adoption agencies and other businesses in the human reproduction...
View ArticleIn The Pipeline: Both Ends Burning and its 56 Nepalese Orphans
The Christian right proclaimed some ten years ago unilaterally that there is an orphan crisis in the world and the movement rebranded its mission as ‘orphan care’ in an 'orphan crusade' which promotes...
View ArticleChild Welfare Activists vs. the Adoption Establishment: The Power of the New...
A few weeks ago, child welfare activists discovered a Facebook page from an agency (https://www.facebook.com/...) where two kids around 5- or 6-years-old, adopted by American families nine months...
View ArticleAdoption, Special Needs, Child Abuse, Evangelicals. Yet Another Case
Ruthann Gneiser, a 31 year-old woman living just outside Manitowoc (WI), a few miles from Lake Michigan, fundraised in 2011 for the adoption of her second child, a toddler with Down syndrome from the...
View ArticleCheerios: 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...
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