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Why Am I Dark, Daddy? White Couple Had Mixed Race Children After IVF Blunder
Instead of fertilising Catherine's eggs with 'White Caucasian' donor sperm, as the couple had requested and, they say, been promised, a staff member at the Regional Fertility Centre at Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital accidentally used donor sperm marked 'Caucasian Cape Coloured'.
South African in origin, the sperm's racial make-up is a mixture of white, black and Malay, which means children born from it can be either black or white. This accounts for the difference in colour between the Williams siblings, who - although born three years apart - came from the same batch of fertilised eggs.
These boys deserve so much more than I can give them - The Globe and Mail
Post-adoption depression, a condition being studied by researchers but not yet recognized as a psychiatric disorder.
According to adoption professionals, post-adoption depression can range in severity from a few weeks of the blues to a major depression that lasts months or longer. Like postpartum depression, it may bring intense feelings of anxiety and guilt, fantasies of running away, and suicidal thoughts.
Adoptive Family Concerned About Safety Of Children - NewsChannel 5.com - Nashville, Tennessee -
Mike and Jill Barber adopted Josh Osborne's siblings after their parents were sent to prison for their treatment of Josh. The Barbers do not let their children out alone after what happened last weekend. "Our girl comes running around the house and says ‘mom, dad someone is here who knows my name,'" said adoptive mother Jill Barber. "We will use every legal means necessary to protect our children and they are our children. I'm holding the adoption degree. They are our children and we will protect them," said Jill.
Catholic mom's son fostered by homosexual couple against her wishes
A Catholic mother in Britain who is unable to care for her son has objected to him being placed in the foster care of a homosexual couple. She has expressed concern the couple could encourage him into a way of life she does not agree with, amid reports the boy is already asking about homosexuality.
Editorial: Judge's adoption requirement is unrealistic - Kalamazoo, Michigan Columns, Letters & Opinion - Kalamazoo Gazette – MLive.com
Judge approves adoptions only for married couples who agree to have one parent stay at home full time with baby.
Sisters given up for adoption as babies are reunited after 35 years ... to find they hate each other | Mail Online
It should have been such an emotional meeting - two sisters, both adopted as babies, finally getting together after 35 years. They thought they would fall into each other's arms and share an instinctive bond. Instead, within hours of meeting for the first time, they were at daggers drawn, a fierce sibling rivalry having erupted almost at once.
Slurred by the adoption Nazis: Critics of gay parenting are branded 'retarded homophobes' | Mail Online
People who have concerns about the adoption of children by gay couples are 'retarded homophobes', the state-funded national adoption agency said yesterday.
Those who protest over controversial gay adoption laws are merely 'whinging', according to the British Association for Adoption and Fostering.
Its insulting description angered senior MPs and former Cabinet Ministers, Roman Catholic and Church of England leaders.
It also offended disability campaigners, who have been trying to discourage the use of the word 'retarded' for years. Whitehall has banned the word for civil servants.
Adoption: Ideology and Reality - Room for Debate Blog - NYTimes.com
03 Jun 2009 11:18 AM
Category: International Adoption (http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com)In our discussion about international adoptions, we received numerous comments from readers who shared their stories on the choices they made and the difficulties they’ve encountered. Below are excerpts of their comments.
Teenager who raped foster parents' 2-year-old son had sex-abuse past kept secret 'to protect his human rights' | Mail Online
Three social workers and managers have been suspended after a disturbed teenager was placed with a family with young children he went on to sexually abuse..
Spokesman.com | Couple gains custody of four great-grandchildren | May 17, 2009
Chuck and Shirley Young learned three years ago that their great-grandchildren had been placed in foster care in Cranbrook, B.C.
The kids had been left with a family friend while their mother went on vacation. Police, responding to complaints about a loud party, removed the children from a home described as “filthy” in legal documents.
The 'family wreckers': Social workers attacked over race rules that rob foster children of a caring home | Mail Online
Social workers were under fire last night after a report revealed they were breaking up foster families because the parents were the wrong colour.
It said official attempts to take mixed-race and black children away from white foster parents are heard 'regularly' in the family courts.
Race rules say they can only be adopted by adults of the same ethnic background.
'I've had SEVEN kids since I was 15,' says mother, 24, raking in ÂŁ24,000 a year in benefits | Mail Online
A mother who has had seven children since she first fell pregnant at the age of 15, has revealed that she gets state handouts of Ł500 a week.
Susie Christian shocked her family when she first became pregnant, announcing that she wanted another seven children.
Parenting: Adoption woes in the adolescent years (OneNewsNow.com)
Many adopted kids seem to have more than their fair share of issues when they reach the adolescent years. Some can seem to turn on the very people who rescued them years before, their adopted parents.
London Free Press - Dad needs to step up for all three kids
Q When I was 16, I had a child and the father was never involved, financially and otherwise. I married a man two years later who willingly adopted my daughter and we have two sons together. Last year, after seven years of marriage, my husband and I split. He moved to another city and only sees the kids a couple of times a year. Although he pays child support for all three kids, he only sends his biological children gifts and cards for birthdays and Christmas.
'They stole my little girl,' says mother judged too stupid to care for her baby | Mail Online
A young mother who was judged too stupid to care for her own baby has accused social workers of 'stealing' the child from her.
The woman, who must be identified only as Rachel for legal reasons, is taking her case to the European Court of Human Rights in a last ditch attempt to halt the adoption of the child, now aged three.
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