Are Children Being Collected for Illegal Adoption? Guatemala Launches Probe

"Guatemalan authorities are trying to check the status of 46 young children to see if they were taken from their parents for illegal adoption abroad. They were found at a home close to Guatemala City after neighbours reported seeing foreigners collecting children there every...

'Stolen' Guatemala children found

"Forty-six children in Guatemala, believed to have been taken from their parents for illegal adoption abroad have been rescued, officials say. The children's ages range from three years old to just a few days. "

Mom reunites through Facebook with son she gave up for adoption

"After spending a year searching for the son she gave up for adoption 20 years ago in phone books, adoption registries and on the Internet to no avail, a friend suggested searching for him on Facebook.Lori Hass said she recognized the son she gave up for adoption on a...

Child Trafficking Mostly Covers Adoption shields In India.

India is heralded in the international community as the land of mystics, tantalizing foreigners since ages with its exoticism. People are drawn from all over the world to experience the doctrine preached by the ascetics promising ‘Nirvana’. The magic of India has survived...

A Chinese Orphan Gets Her Bat Mitzvah

What I find particularly awesome about this is that, traditionally, one is only Jewish if one's birth mother is Jewish. That this congregation including adoptive mothers is a very important precedent."Of the 613 laws in the Torah, the one that appears most often is the...

Iraqi Journalists who read NowPublic: what is this?

A bit of a mystery that needs to be cleared up.This headline showed up in my RSS news reader: "More U.S. Military Assaults on Media".Strangely, the link to the article goes nowhere; as if it had been purposely removed.  Was there an attack by US forces on the Baghdad...

Energy Policy

U.S. Energy Policy, as it stands today, is broken because it is not sustainable in the long term, and provides far too little foresight to ever become sustainable. A lot of people agree, but they are split into groups that prevent enough action from being taken. The largest...

Gay Marriage and Adoption

"Diogenes Borealis, a Blogging Tory, has an excellent Libertarian, yes libertarian, post on the controversy over gay rights in Britain and Canada. In which he correctly points out the difference between public services, and publicly funded organizations and those of privately...

Open Infant Adoption

"The open adoption, or fully disclosed option, is becoming more and more the norm in adoption cases. In this kind of adoption the adoptive parents and the adoptee have an �open� relationship with the birth family. This means that they are actively involving the birth...

Blair: I have always backed gay adoption

"Tony Blair today sought to quell the row over gay adoptions, insisting he was "committed to finding a way through this sensitive and difficult decision". In a statement released by 10 Downing Street, Mr Blair insisted he had always personally been in favour of the right of...

Cherie Blair 'split Cabinet in Catholic adoption row'

"Senior cabinet ministers have told MPs privately that Cherie Blair is the cause of the cabinet split over demands to exempt Roman Catholic adoption agencies from equality laws on gay adoption. The row intensified yesterday when the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac...