Shoshanna Grey's commentsComments On: EverythingArticles Blogs Journals Photos created by: EveryoneShoshanna Considerations in Adopting When You Already Have Children: Travel, Part One - Blog Entry29 Jun 2008 07:53 PM Travel is such a big deal! There are several countries that we would love to adopt from, but we can't even consider them because of the type of travel required. It is definitely something parents need to think about. Interview: Adopting from Ethiopia and Liberia - Blog Entry15 Jun 2008 10:46 AM Congratulations! I have heard wonderful things about WACAP as well. Is Madonna Adopting? - Blog Entry25 Sep 2007 08:54 AM Valorie, thanks for the input. I wrote that blog entry almost a year ago and a lot of information has come forward since then. It sounds like maybe the information we had at first wasn't accurate. To be honest, I have been so busy adopting 3 kids all in the same year that I have not kept up with her story since it initially "broke" last fall. Thank you for updating here because I certainly want what is posted to be accurate. Is Madonna Adopting? - Blog Entry25 Sep 2007 07:40 AM On to the issue that I believe started the disagreement in the first place. . . Valerie is absolutely right that many children who are not "true orphans" (ie: the parents are both deceased) are adopted. In fact, this is the case with most adoptions whether international or domestic. Instead, most children are placed for adoption because one or both parents cannot care for them. I now (as of this week!) have 3 children adopted from Guatemala and Liberia and all three of them still have both parents living. However, the extreme poverty that is found in many countries causes parents to often have to do something that we in more developed and wealthy countries cannot imagine - making the decision to place their child with another family so that they would have the chance of a future. I think that until we are personally in that situation, we have no way of truly understanding the birth parents perspective. Returning to what I was trying to say from the beginning - I have NO PROBLEM with Madonna adopting (though I do sometimes wonder if she is the best person to parent a child - but then we all have our faults). I also don't have a problem with her adopting a child who has a living parent. My problem with Madonna's adoption is that she went to a country that has decided not to allow their children to be placed out of the country, she waved a bunch of money around, and she took the child home. In my book, that is simply unacceptable. Is Madonna Adopting? - Blog Entry25 Sep 2007 07:31 AM Having just returned from Africa myself, I only just saw all of these comments to this blog entry. I agree that it personal attacks have no place here. Please contact the poster through private message if you wish to express your disagreement with something they have said. And as Valerie mentioned, please do keep your comments on the blogs on the shorter side - a few sentances most of the time. If you have more to say on the subject, please feel free to start a thread on the adoption forum and link to the blog entry you're talking about. This will also get you more readership because many more people read the forums than read the comments on individual blog entries. Introducing My Family - Blog Entry03 Apr 2007 07:38 AM Hi Pam! I'm thrilled to be working with you! Your family sounds wonderful! I'd love to see pictures sometime. :-) Gina, I think that Ed's blogs are now under the name FatherofEight. Much Ado About a Passport - Blog Entry29 Mar 2007 06:47 AM Yes, the adoption is completed without us being there. A lot of countries do it this way - actually I thought they all did! :-) We chose Liberia and Guatemala and both countries allow escorts (meaning the parents don't have to travel) so maybe that is the difference? However, I have a friend who is adopting from Ghana which requires one parent to travel and her adoption will also be completed before her travel date. Most countries are able to do the final paperwork (passport, US immigration stuff, etc) in a matter of weeks but for Liberia it is taking much longer. I Had No Idea - Blog Entry27 Mar 2007 06:09 AM Absoultely Tristi! You can be watching for them over the next few days. Attaching in Adoption by: Deborah Gray - Blog Entry11 Nov 2006 10:33 PM I am reading this book right now. It really is good and has a lot of practical advice. So many adoption books talk about things in theory, but don't tell you specifically what to do. This one is much more concrete and helpful! |
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