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Media spotlights adoption
7.14.2007
National TV, radio and magazines have been discussing adoption a lot in the past few weeks. Here, in case you missed them, are a few highlights:
  • Advice for adoptive parents: How to deal with silly questions from strangers, from the Chicago Tribune. Free membership required.
  • Why (and how) one couple got off the infertility-treatment treadmill. Note: Keep reading—it contains some unpleasant details, but has a happy ending.
  • Journalist Jeff Gammage, author of China Ghosts, adopted two girls from China. Hear his conversation with host Terry Gross on National Public Radio's "Fresh Air."
  • Chris Huntington ponders what it means to become an adoptive father on National Public Radio's "This I Believe."
  • In Newsweek's "My Turn" column, family researcher Peggy Drexler pauses to consider her own family, including her adopted daughter. She writes, "I've worked hard to make sure my daughter sees her adoption for what it is: just another way for two people who love each other to find each other."
  • Parents presents a Q&A with Adam Pertman of the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute.
  • NBC's "Today Show" profiles several different types of adoptive families, and dispels some common adoption myths.
  • And finally, you might not expect to find a story about adoption on the New York Times fashion page, but there it is. It has a few more twists and turns than the typical adoption tale (let's just say we're grateful this wasn't one of our adoptions), but make sure you read all the way to the end. Free membership required.


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Doing what's best for kids
6.21.2007
In an op-ed for the Seattle Times, WACAP CEO Lillian Thogersen notes that several countries are changing their foreign adoption policies—and while these changes may be uncomfortable now, they will benefit children in the long term.
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