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BBC News Indonesia menelusuri berbagai kota di Indonesia dan di Belanda, untuk mengurai skandal adopsi ilegal yang melibatkan lebih dari 3.000 anak Indonesia ke Belanda di masa lalu dalam seri siniar terbaru.

Testimonials from birth mothers and birthparents who selected adoption after facing an unplanned pregnancy

It can sometimes be challenging to choose an attitude of gratitude when you are on the path of adoptive parenting.  Adoption inherently involves loss and grief, and the wait to bring your child home can seem unbearable.  How can we focus on giving thanks as we go through this stressful process? Con

The Debate on Interracial Adoption: Since the 1970s, there have been debates in America on whether children of one race should be adopted by parents of another. One camp argues that children adopted interracially lose their sense of identity and culture, while the other claims that regardless of rac

Low cost international adoption - is it possible? What you need to keep in mind is that even a low cost adoption that takes place overseas is going to cost at least $12,000 when you consider all costs.

Both abortion and adoption advocates agree that Barrett's claims that expecting mothers should place their unwanted child for adoption are not realistic.

An appeals court upheld Paul Petersen's six-year sentence in Arkansas for conspiring to smuggle people as a part of a fraudulent adoption scheme.

In the name of anti-racism, Bethany is willing to throw away a huge victory. Black children will bear the brunt of this decision.

The Three Key Benefits of Transracial Adoption

Adoption Choices of Kansas, we celebrate the benefits of transracial adoption and support those who decide to embark on this moving journey.

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Concerns: INTRODUCTION • Risks for the children include development of: • Psychosocial • Emotional • Cultural • Data/ Research from Transracial Adoptees in the Media: 1986-1996 • (Print-media-reported interviews with adult transracial adoptees) • Results: • Problems with

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Adopting a child from a different race will undoubtedly bring a unique set of challenges. However, having an open mind will transform these challenges into joyo

Peggy Klappenberger of Crownsville, Maryland, has a little game she plays with her two teenage sons. Every time she drives by the hospital where they were born, she points to the window of the room where their birth took place. She makes a point of telling them, over and over, that they are seeing the […]

I grew up in a very religious home. We never missed a church service. I taught Sunday school. I briefly considered going into ministry work as a career. Then I got pregnant my freshman year of coll…

The Corrupt Business of Child Protective Services This article’s author worked with around 300 cases in Georgia, along with hundreds across the nation. She shares heart-breaking stories of CPS corruption, including how children are being taken away unnecessarily...

By Christy Crowe Hughes   THE CONCEPT OF adoption is very old—it is part of our earliest Judeo-Christian myths (Moses for example). Although it is an essential social mechanism for taking care…

After giving birth, the mother and child needs to bond before separating them. Here's 7 huge benefits of an undisturbed first hour after birth.

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Paul Sunderland Talks About Adoption and Addiction

http://www.ted.com Pop quiz: When does learning begin? Answer: Before we are born. Science writer Annie Murphy Paul talks through new research that shows how much we learn in the womb -- from the lilt of our native language to our soon-to-be-favorite foods. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate.

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A new brain imaging study shows that infants as young as three months are already enlisting the hippocampus to recognize and learn patterns.

Public investments in benefit programs could save tens of thousands of children from being victims of child abuse and have important later-life effects on child welfare and overall health.

In the 1970s babies born out of wedlock were regularly forced into the adoption system.