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The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel Monday, November 30, 2009 Dave and Kami Oldenkamp of Orchard Mesa thought about adopting for a long time, but they didn’t act on it until they saw photos of children in a Thailand orphanage a little more than a year...
Tags: Dave, Kami Oldenkamp, Lithuania, Vilnius, International adoption, Social Issues, Adoption, Family law
More than two decades ago, New York started down a path that was considered a hallmark of child welfare reform by creating and strengthening its minority-governed, neighborhood-based foster care agencies...The agency was the fifth minority-led foster...
Tags: foster cared, Mr. Mattingly, child welfare, run agency, task force, New York City, cared agency, welfare advocates, Child and family services, Social Issues, Child protection, Holt International Children's Services, Family law, Adoption, Foster care, Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies
Go ahead and play those Mozart CDs, teach a toddler to hit a tennis ball or tutor him in advanced algebra. In the end, you might have listened to some good music or spent some time bonding in the sun or the library. What you probably can't teach, though,...
Tags: Ms. Harris, Mr. Pinker, environmental factors, Washington, Health Medical Pharma, Genetics, Judith Rich Harris, Childhood, Parenting, The Nurture Assumption, Nature versus nurture, Adoption, Child development
Harness drew suspicious stares and was followed by employees every time she entered a store in the Montana town where she was raised. But it wasn't until she was 14 that she realized how estranged she was from the dominant culture she had been pushed...
Tags: white hawk, Susan Devan Harness, indians children, Suzie Fedorko, American Indians, Evelyn Stevenson, American Indian Movement, biological family, indians child, forcibly adoptive, Denver, Social Issues, Adoption, Family law, Language of adoption
The toys and children's clothes gather dust in a corner of Panita Chumchantha's home in Ottawa, sad remnants of a gleeful shopping spree she embarked on just over a year ago to welcome to Canada the son she hadn't seen in years. Seven-year-old Tanadon,...
Tags: Panita Chumchantha, Federal Court of Canada, Thailand, Mauril Belanger, complex immigration, Canada, Toronto, International adoption, Social Issues, Adoption, Family law, Immigration to Canada
The provincial government has finally created a long-promised, three-member commission to examine why 49 provincial children's aid societies face a $67 million funding shortfall. The group will have the power to make changes as they identify them, said...
Tags: Aid Society, Ontario Association of Children, Canada, Toronto, Liberal Party of Canada, Children's Aid Society, Adoption, Law enforcement in Canada, Laurel Broten
It was nearing dusk on the first Sunday of last December when a young woman carrying a newborn walked through the automatic sliding doors of Whidden Memorial Hospital in Everett and told a desk clerk in a calm voice: I can’t take care of the baby...Linda...
Tags: Baby Jane Doe, Ann Beck, Whidden Memorial Hospital, Cambridge Hospitals, Boston, Infancy, Childhood, Safe-haven law, Child abandonment, Social Issues, Adoption, Maternity, Child welfare, Babycare
Marin County Health and Wellness Campus at 3250 Kerner Blvd., Room 107, San Rafael. A social worker and an experienced foster parent will be on hand to discuss the application process, as well as the training and support the county offers. The event is...
Tags: Marin County, Novato, Marin County California, San Rafael California, Marin, Foster, Coyote, Social Issues, Family, Family law, Adoption, Marinwood California, Foster care
E-mail: To: From: Name: E-mail: Comments: It's a story of thanksgiving...Donna and Kerry Riemer shared their saga this week during Adoption Sunday at Alpine Chapel in Lake Zurich. The church's first adoption awareness event featured testimonies from...
Tags: Donna Balachowski, Donna Riemer, Kerry Riemer, Riemers, birth mom, Libertyville, Social Issues, Characters of Beverly Hills 90210, Adoption
As his new parents promised to love and cherish him as their son, 3-year-old Julian Angel Sauceda hugged their legs and gave them kisses on their hands. His adoptive brothers Abram, 11, and Jorge, 6, stood by his side and made the vow along with their...
Tags: Jorge Andres Sauceda, Irene Barnhart-Sauceda, Abram, Eddie Sauceda, Fort Myers, International adoption, Social Issues, Adoption, Family law, Abraham, Irene, Abram Greater Manchester