[Birth Mother] First Mother Forum

Three generations, three blondes How thoroughly adoptive parents are quick to push aside the thoughts that the children they adopt have...

Kirstie Alley in The Baby Seller Prospective adoptive parents who l...

Jane “’The era of the boom time for international adoption, I think, has passed us by’” Adam Pertman, Executive Director of the Evan B....

Jane “But aren’t they better off”? That’s the question that’s always asked when people learn about the possibility that a child adopte...

It is the rare adoptive parent who, after adopting from overseas, can wrap her mind around the idea that "her" baby might have bee...

Jane China, long thought to be squeaky clean in international adoptions turns out to have a history of corruption, according to David Sm...

Lorraine How does our culture promote adoption? Let me count the ways, and let me begin with the truly grotesque blog of the ultra conser...

Lorraine People who want a child--someone else's child--will stop at nothing to get one, apparently, even when the illegal practices ...

Janette Barcenas has been doubly damned by adoption, first when she was taken from her mother in Guatemala and brought to the United States...

Pro-adoption forces do not want to call taking children from poor countries in great quantity: trafficking. They are wrong. It is child traf...

Our story from an American woman's quest to find the truth of her children, adopted from Ethiopia, resonated with a friend of ours, Dr. ...

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New evidence that the unethical harvesting of children in Ethiopia by American adoption agencies continues comes from the public broadcastin...

Sometimes we get comments on earlier posts that are simply begging for a response, as was this one left the other day at the blog: They call...

As our regular readers know, my daughter Megan was adopted by a Mormon couple and is a faithful member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Lat...

A while back we posted a blog from Charissa who was planning to adopt three children from Ethiopia, but instead of rushing ahead, she did s...

An adoptive mother who found First Mother Forum offensive posted some inflammatory comments to the previous post about the Women In Hiding ...

An amazing story out of South Korea the other day: Six Korean adoptees--adopted in other countries--filed an appeal with the Anti-corr...

Harvesting children for profit goes on in poor countries all over the world. Ethiopia is one of the newest to cash in on this crop for expor...

More on the story from China where babies were "confiscated" and "legally" adopted overseas in 2006 and 2007, thanks to ...