Filed under: Adoption , Playground bureau , Media A few years ago, my best friend decided to build her family through adoption. Recently, she became Mom to an amazing young boy. She’s taught me so much over the last few years, both about the process but also about how how to be sensitive to adoptive parents and children. So I was shocked when I read that a company called Teleflora, which is currently sponsoring an America’s Favorite Mom contest for Mother’s Day (Donnie and Marie Osmand will crown the winner on NBC’s Primetime tomorrow night), categorized adoptive moms in their contest as "non-moms." An adoption blogger complained, and the company quickly realized their error. They’ve now change the category to "adopting moms" and issued an apology on their web page.
I really don’t think Teleflora meant to be hurtful, but I do think that they weren’t taking the feelings of families who have adopted into considerat...
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Critically acclaimed actress Emma Thompson has waged a legal battle to keep her adopted son from being deported. She and her husband, Greg Wise, "informally" adopted twenty-one year-old Tindyebwa Agaba, a Rwandan refugee, after meeting him at a Refugee Council party several years ago.
Now the British government may be sending Tindyebwa back to Rwanda. According to the government h... more
Filed under: Adoption , Media , Teenager , 15-19 years , Movies My husband and I managed a date this weekend (yay!) and went to see Juno . I’d heard a lot of good things about this movie, which tells the story of a quirky teenage girl who becomes pregnant and decides to give her baby up for adoption. It did not disappoint. I laughed, I cried, and while I left the theater entertained, there was enough substance to the film to have thoughtful discussion over dinner. (A... more
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According to a recent interview , Gwyneth Paltrow would like to adopt! Like many celebrities before her, including her Madgesty Madonna, Gwynnie is considering a blended family with hubbie Chris Martin of Coldplay fame. Only unlike many celebs of late, she’s looking in to adopting a local, homegrown babe.
Says Paltrow, " We might get one from Brooklyn. No baby is more helpless than another baby. And I’m a ... more
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Remember a few years ago when all that stuff was circulating around the web about how much it costs to have a kid? The number was somewhere around a million dollars or something, or close enough to might as well be that high. Today a new article hit the world wide web courtesy (for me) of Reuters: The cost of fertility treatment.
Accordin... more
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