Showing posts with label adoption. Show all posts
Showing posts with label adoption. Show all posts
Saturday, May 31, 2025

Children adopted from China can now find birth-family connections via DNA sites

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 Like children conceived with the help of anonymous sperm donors, adopted children can use DNA websites to search for family members.  For c...
Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Surrogacy under siege in Italy

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 Opposition to surrogacy in Italy has taken aim at the babies of same sex couples. The NYT has the story: Surrogacy Emerges as the Wedge Iss...
Friday, October 7, 2022

This Supreme Court term has many cases on repugnant transactions and controversial markets

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 The newly conservative-dominated Supreme Court is ready for its second term, and has a docket full of what readers of this blog know I thin...
Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Spain's stolen babies (from the NY Times)

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The sale of babies is widely regarded as repugnant, but it has been used for political purposes in the dark days of Spain, and Argentina.  H...
Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Foster care in the U.S.

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  In the U.S., foster care isn't regarded as a profession (it's repugnant to pay foster parents, so they just get a stipend for chil...
Tuesday, October 26, 2021

Same sex marriage now legal in Switzerland, by popular referendum

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  The BBC has the story (it happened last month, but I wasn't paying attention): Switzerland same-sex marriage: Two-thirds of voters bac...
Sunday, June 27, 2021

Can same sex couples adopt and foster children in need? It's complicated...

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  When religion and non-discrimination contest with each other in court, the decisions sometimes rely on the details of the case: The WSJ ha...
Wednesday, February 17, 2021

International adoptions temporarily halted in the Netherlands

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 The decision by the Netherlands to indefinitely ban international adoptions has generated some controversy.   The NY Times has the story: N...
Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Adoption is complex even when it doesn't include State and Tribal rights...

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Foster care and adoption are always complex, and never more so when not only families and children are involved, but also States and Native...
Thursday, April 11, 2019

Adoption, interracial adoption, and repugnance

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The Washington Post looks back on the history of adoption. (Even adoption can arouse repugnance...): A white couple, a mixed-race baby an...
Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Tax credit for adopting a child

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Philip Held draws my attention to this oped from the WSJ, by By Jedd Medefind (who is president of the Christian Alliance for Orphans, and ...
Friday, June 2, 2017

Who can be parents in Italy? (Adoption by same sex couples...)

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In Italy, Confusion and Division Over Same-Sex Parenting Court ruling highlights conflicting views over the rights of homosexual couples a...
Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Two California surrogacy stories from Europe, and a (pretty sad) one from Italy via Russia

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Here's a late breaking story about an Italian couple that enlisted a surrogate in Russia, had the child taken from them by Italian auth...
Saturday, January 14, 2017

2016 Baby Markets 10th Anniversary International Congress in April

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Here's the call for papers: 2016 Baby Markets 10th Anniversary International Congress April 1-3, 2016 • University of California, ...
Monday, December 12, 2016

Black market for babies in Malaysia

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Al Jazeera files this report:  BABIES FOR SALE:  Malaysia's underground baby trade "The babies offered for sale come from a vari...
Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Pennsylvania Adoption Exchange

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Here's a new paper on matching for adoption: The Pennsylvania Adoption Exchange Improves Its Matching Process Vincent W. Slaugh, Mus...
Friday, July 8, 2011

A Spanish market in stolen babies?

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In a chilling story, the NY Times reports Spain Confronts Decades of Pain Over Lost Babies " Prodded by grieving parents, Spanish jud...
Friday, July 1, 2011

Adoptions by same sex couples

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Adoptions Rise by Same-Sex Couples, Despite Legal Barriers "Same-sex couples are explicitly prohibited from adopting in only two stat...
Sunday, March 13, 2011

Adoption as a (less) repugnant transaction

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You wouldn't think that adoption would sometimes be regarded as a repugnant transaction, i.e. as something that some people didn't...
Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Elton John and husband have a son by a surrogate mom

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Lots of formerly repugnant transactions get mentioned in this brief, happy story:  Elton John, Husband Welcome New Son "Elton John mu...
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