Why Bert would like Noah
Noah was feeling overwhelmed today and came into the kitchen while I was making dinner. Madison likes to sit in our cupboards while I’m cooking. She comes out to help stir or set the table but the rest of the time she makes a little room out of two cupboard doors (you can see her set up in the picture I put up in the post before this one) and — well, I’m not sure what she does in there. She used to peel both onions and the labels off of cans but things seem intact these days. I’ve found baby dolls and board books in there and sometimes the canned goods seem sorted by size.
Anyway, Noah started to cry and I was giving him a hug when Madison poked her head out of her little cubby hole and said, “Noah, when you cry you sound like a pigeon.”
It cheered him right up.
Hi, I’d like to share with ya’ll a new and very important book about adoption:
The STORK MARKET:
America’s Multi-Billion Dollar Unregulated Adoption Industry
by Mirah Riben
Foreword by Evelyn Robinson
Projected Release Date: Feb 15, 2007
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http://www.AdvocatePublications.com
Stork mar·ket. (stôrk märkt) n. 1. exposé of the corruption in the adoption industry; the fine line between black and gray market adoption; scams, coercion and exploitation. 2. an in-depth report on the international market where children are the commodity being bought and sold to the highest bidders including pedophiles with prices based on quality (i.e. age, skin color) of the merchandise and set as high as ‘desperate’ consumers continue to be willing to pay. 3. an examination of the myths of adoption that put the needs of adults, and those who profit from their desperation, before the needs of children who need homes. 4. an extensively researched and documented book that asks if adoption can be fixed - the money aspect removed and government controls and regulations put in place - or abolished in favor of permanent guardianship, or informal adoption sans the issuance of falsified birth certificates. 5. goes further than Riben’s groundbreaking, award-winning “shedding light on…The Dark Side of Adoption†(1988) which was excerpted in Social Issues Review Series, Utne Reader and Microcosm USA. 7. reveals, for the first time in print, Riben’s role in the notorious Joel Steinberg murder case.
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“Riben has done it again. Once again, as in Dark Side, she has pulled back the covers and exposed the unpleasant truths and problems that need to be addressed in American adoption practices. While difficult, when we remove the rose-colored glasses many view adoption through, the conclusions that Riben comes to are inarguable. Most impressive on every count….well researched and thought out.†Annette Baran, M.S.W., L.C.S.W., co-author The Adoption Triangle
Mirah Riben writes that she refuses to give up. This book - a wonderful and well-integrated mix of approachesâ€â€part analysis, part case studies from the front lines, part handbook, part up-to-date law and policy review - is a testament to Riben’s powerful and enduring commitment to the rights and needs of vulnerable women and their children. Riben’s book is a clear, bright blueprint for change. Rickie Solinger, historian and author of Pregnancy and Power: A Short History of Reproductive Politics in America
“Combines the historical and legal perspective with really hard hitting journalism.†Maureen Flatley, political consultant and media advisor specializing in child welfare and adoption
I shouldn’t laugh but that is sort of funny.
LOL. In other news, I used to sit in our cupboard as well. Heh.
nice that he was cheered up by her.
we’ve been getting the overwhelmed crying/crabbiness here lately too. fun fun.