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Newsletter - April 26, 2008

Submitted by AngelaW on Sun, 04/27/2008 - 01:04.

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OurAdopt, Exciting Week of Blogs
Welcome To OURadopt.com Newsletter!      The Week of April 26, 2008

AngelaW wrote about Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Vietnam Adoption Changes. Ukraine passed a law making single parent adoption illegal. And they set minimum and maximum ages for adoptive parents. Parents must be 21 years or older. And they must be 45 years or younger then their adopted child. So if you want to adopt a 3 year old, you must be 48 years or younger.

FaithA' wrote about the traumatized adopted child and nightmares and setting appropriate boundaries. She shares her struggles as an adult survivor of child abuse. How much information should be shared and how to talk about the abuse. And did you know that adoptive families really are a minority group?

JulieC's reacted to An Unfixable Child with a blog about her fears. Will she get a fixable child? She just finished her foster care training and has started on her home study. She writes about the pressure to appear perfect during the adoption process. And she has worried how her current children will adjust to new siblings.

LisaS has an URGENT request. Please contact your senators and representatives and help keep Guatemalan adoptions open. You must do it before Tuesday, April 29. Lisa reacted to the news that Kazakhstan decided 50 years is too old for adoptive parents. She asked, Is Fifty Too Old to Adopt? And she shares the agony and ecstasy of visiting your child prior to adoption being completed in Guatemala. 

VirginiaC remembers Boris Yeltsin and discusses the joy she experienced in the parking lot at Disneyland.

 

We welcome submissions for our guest blog. Please email your thoughts to editor@ouradopt.com. Here are the guest bloggers for this week.  

  • No One Forgets by , author of "Because I Loved You: A Birthmother's View of Open Adoption", a speaker, child care professional and birthmother. Read more from Patricia here.
  • An Unfixable Child by John, a former commercial airline pilot who has adopted four boys from domestic foster care as a single parent. John and his family live in southern California. 
  • This story is his to tell, and not mine by Krissi. With her now ex-husband, she adopted her son from the Solnyshko Baby House in Zaporozhye, Ukraine when he was four months old in November 2000. This post first appeared on her Web site, Krississippi.com.

 New Reviews This Week
Reviews of various products, books, music from amazon.com

New reviews can be found on the ouradopt.com front page. You can find the most popular reviews and comments on this page.

Newz Section
Drop by and comment on a story. Share what stories interest you. 

Events, issues, and important information are constantly unfolding in the adoption community, all over the world on a daily basis. We have a new newz section that contains some must read stories (articles, blogs, etc..) 

 

The top 5 stories for this week are:

 Technical Note

Web site information.  

In case you haven't found this page yet, you can always find our most popular content on this page; http://ouradopt.com/blog/hot. This page includes new blogs, reviews and newz.

If you remember last week's newsletter, I mentioned the most read blogs on ouradopt.com belong to LisaS. And I made a joke that our readers like LisaS best.

Well it looks like our readers have a new favorite writer. John's An Unfixable Child blog is the 4th most popular blog of all time.

A shout out to and thanks goes to:

We will get the blogroll up. But there are a couple of other items that need taken care of first. I will remember (actually I have a report that I can run) who has put us on their blogroll. And you will go onto our blogroll.

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