Just as we support access to safe and legal abortion, as well as access to parenting resources and support, should we not demand access to ethical adoption practices?
Leslie Goldman | Posted 12.01.2009 | Living
Like many of the two million other children worldwide living with HIV, Sachi, born September 10, 2007, contracted the virus from her birth mother, who was a sex worker in Mysore, India.
Peggy Drexler | Posted 11.30.2009 | Living
Families with children who look or even feel different still feel the bond -- they understand that all families are different, not better or worse.
Peggy Drexler | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living
They used to tell adopted children that they were special because they'd been chosen. I've told my adopted child that I don't believe that. Neither adoption nor birth conveys status to a child.
Deborah Douglas | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living
The Asian-adoptee identity crisis reported in the Times might finally lend credence to what black social workers have been saying all along: Ethnic and racial identity matters.
Sheila Lirio Marcelo | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living
For all the joy pets bring into our lives, they can be very expensive I want to share ways to save money and keep your four-legged family members.
Elizabeth Benedict | Posted 11.03.2009 | Living
We are the two happy misfits in the family, unconnected by blood or official documents, and connected in our certainty that family is more than either.
Pat Nolan | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics
Maintaining the child-parent relationship during a parent's incarceration improves a child's emotional development and their behavior, and will help keep him or her from following their parent to prison.
Jenifer Fox | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living
Between the ages of 14 and 16 girls begin the difficult search for independence. It is even more difficult for a daughter who has been adopted, as she is trying to find a separate identity from her adopted mother.
Michael Markarian | Posted 10.09.2009 | Living
There's no question that we as a society need to do more to help homeless dogs and cats find loving families, and we are even seeing the issue of pet adoption enter the public policy arena.
AFP | Posted 11.29.2009 | World
HANOI, Sept 28, 2009 (AFP) - Six Vietnamese were Monday sentenced to prison terms for their roles in a graft scandal which saw hundreds of babies adop...
Kennewick woman, 78, meets family for first time | Sara Schilling | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living
Howell didn't know anything about her birth mother, not even the woman's name. She tried over the years to find out more but came up empty until recen...
Michael Giltz | Posted 11.13.2009 | Entertainment
You could spend an entire film festival going from press conference to round table to one-on-one interviews. I'd rather see the films and worry about interviews some other time.
AP | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — Uruguay is clearing the way for homosexual couples to adopt children. The Senate's final approval Wednesday makes Uruguay...
Don McNay | Posted 09.18.2009 | Living
When I read the Obama quote about fathers, it made me wonder what side of the equation I fell on. Was I living up to my father's expectations or making up for his mistakes?
Maggie Van Ostrand | Posted 09.14.2009 | Comedy
"We love him so very much, so so very much, and we know that Michael would have approved of Larry as his brother," said LaToya Jackson.
Betsy Saul | Posted 09.12.2009 | Living
it is heartbreaking to see wonderful pets staying in shelters day after day, year after year -- just because they are too large or too shy, have broken limbs, or are the "wrong" color.
Don McNay | Posted 09.08.2009 | Media
Obama's election was not only a door opener for people of color. It also showed that people with absent dads, or no dad at all, can grow up and live in the White House.
Tina Traster | Posted 09.05.2009 | Living
I have a thing for rescue. Put in certain circumstances I act before I think, especially when crises involve animals. It's a reflex.
Huffingtion Post | Posted 09.03.2009 | Media
You can find just about anything for sale on Craigslist, even, as one Massachusetts family discovered to their horror, your own baby. After receiving...
Lissa Coffey | Posted 08.25.2009 | Living
More and more we are learning that we live in a global community. Because of the internet and ease of travel, it's easier for us to reach out and help children not only in our hometowns, but around the world.
people.com | Oliver Jones | Posted 08.21.2009 | Entertainment
Ever since she was a little girl, Mary-Louise Parker was certain of one thing: one day, when old enough, she would adopt. "I would daydream about it ...
Deborah Jiang Stein | Posted 10.30.2009 | Living
With two names in my pocket, I've come to hold vast curiosity about naming and how our lives are impacted by what people call us. (Yes, even the curse words we've been called.)
Jodi Jacobson | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics
If women have true choices, increased access to and support for adoption services will not dramatically affect the rate of abortions.
Jodi Jacobson | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics
Waldman suggests we set up a Presidential commission to study the "sacredness of sex" and that the President start to talk about this as part of his platform. If I want the government to tell me how and what to think about sex, I'll buy a plane ticket to Afghanistan and live under the original Taliban.
Melissa Busch | Posted 12.09.2009 | Living