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Babies with Scabies and Other Complaints

Posted on May 4, 2021 by

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Adopting children from a foreign country is so glamorous, so heroic, attention-getting, show-stopping. If you adopt a child from another country, your friends will admire you and strangers will call you a saint. You, on the other hand, know the truth. You’re going to… Continue Reading “Babies with Scabies and Other Complaints”

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Babies with Scabies and Other Complaints

Posted on August 23, 2013 by

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Adopting children from a foreign country is so glamorous, so heroic, attention-getting, show-stopping. If you adopt a child from another country, your friends will admire you and strangers will call you a saint. You, on the other hand, know the truth. You’re going to… Continue Reading “Babies with Scabies and Other Complaints”

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Unclaimed is Better: The Pain of Disputed Adoptions

Posted on October 30, 2011 by

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I feel ill for the Monahans – the couple whose adopted Guatamalan daughter is now being reclaimed by the Guatamalan government on behalf of her birth mom who says the child was kidnapped by human traffickers and essentially sold into the foreign adoption system. I… Continue Reading “Unclaimed is Better: The Pain of Disputed Adoptions”

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