When adopting a child from China, you enter a relationship with the Chinese government. Not just the country and the culture, but the whole system - at least temporarily, but if you're planning on returning in the future to show your child from where she (or he!) came, then for however long it takes. This makes some prospective parents uneasy.

Perhaps you'll rest easier knowing that ... more

You like the internet, right? (Otherwise, how did you get here??)

Here are three sites I've found to be useful:

Trendy, trendy Facebook has quite ... more

Not personally - I really mean adoptive parents of whom you might have heard.

I'm not sure you should call them role models, but they're Been-There-Done-That and they're famous.

Miami Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino, who has held every "serious" passing record in the NFL, founded a chain of restaurants and a foundation for autistic children, and who adopted Niki in 1998 and Lia in 2001. He is a hero.... more

A hand-edited manuscript of Pearl S. Buck's The Good Earth has been recovered and feuding heirs have finally reached an agreement that allows the book to be publicly displayed.

Here's why this matters:

PSBI (Pearl S. Buck International) is the organization behind Welcome... more

NPR is running a series called "Adoption in America" during Morning Edition this week, and yesterday's interview was especially interesting.

It was a profile of Susan Soon-keum Cox, who was adopted from Korea herself in 1956 and is now a vice president of Holt International, which (if you haven't run into the name yet) is a modern adoption colossus.

I can't really do justice to her story in a short summary, so I encourage you to head over to the NPR site to listen to her tell it, or at... more

What was I saying about moving to Shanghai?

Check this out: the usually thought-provoking Shanghaiist blog (a group blog by a bunch of expats in China) has taken a look at adoption & abandonment - especially what happens to those kids who are taken in by Chinese families in what's... more

The New York Times reports on an adoptive mom moving from the old capital of the world to the new one. She's leaving New York City to start a new life in Shanghai with her 12-year-old daughter. And she's... more

The latest copy of The Futurist has news that should feed the already-swollen egos of a bajillion adoptive parents. The subheading says it all: "New study shows adoptive parents may have a slight advantage". That link goes to an abstract of the article, but basically, what it's saying is this: A study in the American Sociological Review looked at how growing up in "nontraditional" families affects kids. There's a wealth of information about how much better two-parent families are than one-parent families as far as outcomes for the kids (on average,... more

Hey, you gotta read this: Chloe Comes Home is a blog written by Chloe Mellon, who was adopted from China and has, at the age of 9, gone back for the first time. Her dad is a journalist with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, so of course, her exploits are being published. There's video of Chloe and her two sisters (Brooke, 7, and Jessie, 4) eating in restaurants and playing with babies in orphanages... more

First: an announcement. Over in the China Adoption Forums, there's a writer for Redbook looking for adoptive moms of kids from China interested in being interviewed. And becoming a hero to an adoring crowd of Redbook readers, one would hope. You'll have to use your real name and allow photos of the family to appear in the magazine.

Second: another announcement. "Yes, Tiana, they do have boys in China."

I felt that needed to be said... more