Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption Announces Top 100 Adoption-Friendly Workplaces in America

(Dublin, OH – May 1, 2008) It’s the list that prompted policy change. After the first Best Adoption-Friendly Workplaces in America list debuted in 2007, more than 50 organizations nationwide established or enhanced their adoption benefits for 2008. As a result, employers who made the top 100 list released today by the Dave Thomas Foundation [...]

Teleflora’s America’s Favorite Mom Contest

The contest is now over, but Teleflora stupidly put mothers who’ve adopted in the “non-moms” category along with grandmothers and stepmothers. Shame on them and hooray for the moms who spoke out!!
An NBC Mother’s Day special was seeing to some last-minute changes after adoptive parents balked at a category honoring them [...]

A Journalist’s Guide to Adoption

A Journalist Guide to Adoption:
By Journalists For Journalists
Dear Journalist:
Adoption is increasingly being covered by the news media, whether it is the legislative battle to open adoption and birth records, the homecoming of a long-awaited child from overseas, the meeting of adoptees and their birth families, a custody battle, corrupt adoption practices, or an in-depth report [...]

Imagine If Adoption Really Did Cost Only $10.00

Both of my daughters have been active in Girl Scouts for a few years. They have great troop leaders and their experience has been a positive one overall. Over the Christmas holiday, a situation came up with my older daughters troop. The following e-mails will explain the story. The first one is me e-mailing her [...]

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How Using Adoption to Catch Attention, Touch Heartstrings and Raise Big Bucks Exploits Children Who Were Adopted and Those Waiting for Permanency
People who are involved with adoption issues on a daily basis are becoming increasingly concerned about the negative impact of programs taking an “ADOPT-A-” theme which have proliferated since the Cabbage Patch doll craze [...]

   






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