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Lorraine Dear FMF: My husband and I are new to adoptions. We recently decided we want to adopt due to fertility issues. I met a lady a...

The previous post dealt with the prevailing attitude towards adopting in America today--that there must be a lot babies who need adopting--...

Lorraine at her desk  While we have been discussing the great damage done by people like Catelynn and Tyler for their continuing advoc...

Lorraine Speaking up and speaking out about a controversial issue is always scary the first time. Adoption as we know it today has beco...

When half the faculty at Harvard and Boston College Law Schools endorse a bill that encourages poor countries to take children from the...

Sen. Mary Landrieu Foreign adoptions have plummeted from just over 23,000 in 2004 to just under 9,000 in 2012, as foreign countries and...

Jane My post lauding the Russian government for stopping adoptions to the United States made Barbara Paden, an adoptive mother of two R...

Jane "US could face a critical adoption shortage" wails the headline in the Salem, Oregon  Statesman Journal  over a January ...

The other evening as I watched the PBS special Half the Sky, a documentary spotlighting the outrageous treatment of women in many parts o...

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

The cover story of New York magazine last week was titled: "Is She Just too Old for This?" and showed a freakish and obviously...

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

Scott Simon, author of Baby We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption is upset over three posts* critiquing his memoirs and me...

Would-be adopters have begun circling Japan in the wake of the tragic earthquake and tsunami earlier this month. First Mother Forum readers...

Lorraine Madonna's plans for a swell school for girls in Malawi (from where she has adopted two children) are going up in smoke, but ...

Encarnacion Bail Romero I n a case which the Missouri Supreme Court described as “a travesty in its egregious procedural errors, its lo...

The case of seven year old Artyom Savelyev (Justin Hansen) whose adoptive mother, Torry Hansen, sent him back to Russia is only the latest e...

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...

Over the weekend CNN reported "Guatemalan Army Stole Kids for Adoption," a story that cannot go unnoticed here at Birth Mother/Fi...

_______________ Madonna's bid to adopt a girl from Malawi, Chifundo Mercy James, has been approved by the highest court in that country...