This guest blog post was written by Vincent Loera. Steve Gutterman (March 2, 2013) of Reuters wrote an article depicting a Russian rally in support of the U.S. ban on adopting Russian children. The rally was also a call for Kris Shatto a Russian adoptee to be returned to Russia after his brother, Max, had [...]
This guest blog was written by Erin Bachaus. Black, L. (2013). Evanston couple must give up Korean baby. Chicago Tribune. [Photo by Abel Uribe/ Chicago Tribune] An Illinois couple who adopted a newborn daughter from South Korea are now being forced by the South Korean government to return the child to her native country due [...]
This guest blog post was written by Erin Lysne. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) The Wall Street Journal published an editorial on February 4th 2013 by Mary Anastasia O'Grady called Guatemala's Inhumane Adoption Law: A U.S.-backed policy bars thousands of children from being given homes in America. In the online version of the article there is also [...]
This guest post was written by Katie Johnson. In the March/April 2013 issue of the Adoptive Families magazine Gregory Keck and Regina Kupecky wrote the article "7 Ways to Give Your Child a History." This article discusses the need of older adopted children to understand their story of placement and what it means when they [...]
This guest blog post was written by Kari Torborg. [Photo of Max Shatto (Maksim Kuzmin) who died on January 21.] The article which is the focus of this blog assignment is entitled "All eyes on Texas town at center of Russian adoption drama". It was published on February 22, 2013 by Richard Solash with Radio [...]
This guest blog post was written by Linda Gross. This link is to an opinion article found on CNN dated January 17th, 2013, written from the perspective of a University of Minnesota woman who, in the process of trying to adopt a girl from Russia with her husband, has negatively experienced the recent ban on [...]
This guest post was written by Chris Murphy. Elizabeth Bartholet wrote this article on achieving permanency through international adoption, and it was published in the Harvard Law School Journal. Elizabeth Bartholet is a professor at New York Law School. This article was developed from a lecture that Professor Bartholet gave at the Permanency for Children [...]
This guest blog post was written by Clint Mack. In December 2012, Wilder Research completed a 3 year study on the effectiveness of the Kinship Navigator Project. This project was a collaboration of Minnesota Kinship Caregivers Association (MKCA) and its partners to help support successful caregiving outside the formal child welfare system. The project goals [...]