UK policymaking outsourced: the curious case of adoption reform, Clare Sambrook

Source: openDemocracy

Breathtaking collusion between ministers, special advisers and Rupert Murdoch’s lieutenants (some of them inside the Government) is being dragged into the light by the Leveson inquiry. This prompted me to reflect on the curious way in wh ...
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Source: Candy Addict

Remember the giddy excitement that welled up inside the pit of your stomach when, upon completing a marathon Trick-or-Treating run, it was finally time to dump the contents of your bloated pillowcase all over the floor? Amid random carpet crumbs ...
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Citizen of no land: The story of Kairi Shepherd

Source: Firstpost

Kairi Shepherd, a 30 year-old Indian-origin adoptee is staring at the prospect of deportation from United States to India and says being sent back to India would end her life as she knows it. "The deportation order ...
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Korean adoptees create shows about their experiences

Source: TwinCities.com

had been raised by a liberal feminist mother, while her birth mother was "as girly as you can get." Her Korean family can't understand why Chomet is single. They couldn't complete a family tree like the other kids in grade school. They w ...
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Make adoption connections

Source: The Observer

AS FAR as decisions go, whether to give a child up for adoption must be one of the hardest. It's also a choice with a "butterfly effect" of consequences, changing the lives of many for years to come. In recognition of this, The Gladstone Wo ...
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Mendham Twp. resident is advocate for opening adoption records

Source: The Morris County Daily Record

When Gov. Chris Christie blocked the enactment of a law a year ago that would have allowed adoptees to acquire their original birth certificates, he let down adoptees, their adoptive parents and birth mothers, says Jane Nast , an advocate of the ...
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China: some genuine stake-holding behavior

Source: Thomas P.M. Barnett

Interesting FT half-pager a bit back on how Beijing's plans for carbon trading are "attracting interest from around the world." Especially interesting to me because back when I did the NewRuleSets work with Cantor Fitzgerald a ...
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Control and Intimacy: A 4 Step Solution

Source: Psychology Today

Margaret Mahler tell us in The Psychological Birth of the Human Infant, that our first three years of life our precious. Whether it is the safe bonding of the symbiotic phase, or the playfulness of the exploring phase or the simple reassurance of re ...
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