I am making changes to the website behind the scenes in the hope that the changes will make it easier and quicker to update the website and thus make updates more likely. I am shifting my photo albums to Flickr and my videos to Youtube. There will be links on the website to the content on Flickr and Youtube so it will be just as easy to get to the photos and videos from the website.
In the meantime, as my kids are getting older, for the sake of privacy, there will be fewer pictures of them on the website.
Los Angeles Times: Adoptive families’ quests to trace Chinese roots often meet dead ends
By Martha Groves and Barbara Demick
December 28, 2009
More families are traveling to China to unravel the mystery of where their adoptive children came from and who their parents are. For the few who are able to make any headway, luck is a big factor.
In this Sunday’s Los Angeles Times (link), there is an article titled “Chinese babies stolen by officials for foreign adoption”. While I suspect the stories in the article represent a small percentage of Chinese international adoption cases, even a small percentage is too many. I hope that the United States and Chinese governments look into this situation to ensure that this is still not occurring.
Learn how Julia Norris, the mother of her Chinese adopted son, Christian, helped trace his roots in China from this article from the Baltimore Sun.
An American teenager adopted from China reunites with his birth parents in Beijing. Read the story by clicking on this link to the Los Angeles Times article: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-china-adopt30-2009aug30,0,3703559,full.story
On Monday, National Public Radio’s (NPR’s) All Things Considered had a radio news story on a new rule from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that has some Americans leaving China and Ethiopia without the children they adopted there. Click here to read a NPR article and to listen to the news story.
There is discussion about the Scruggs/Litchford family who had to leave behind a 4 year old daughter whom they adopted in China because she had been diagnosed as having TB.
Latest on the China adoption controversy that has taken place in Guizhou.
China punishes officials after babies taken (AP)
Link:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hWw3Uoi4aU_Xpnob6jMvHShSaBAQD997IV3O0
Here are some pictures from the 4th of July.
