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• The Jolie-Pitts Need to Pick Up the Pace

  Not even Angelina Jolie could turn these numbers around. International adoptions in the U.S. have fallen dramatically for a third year in a row. State Department figures show that only 19,411 children were adopted by Americans from foreign countries last year, a decrease of 15 percent in the past two years. The huge drop is due to Read More... Posted Dec 02 2007, 07:02 AM by Madeline Holler with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: angelina jolie, China, Madonna, Russia, Mary-Louise Parker, international adoption, Guatamala

• Guatemala to Suspend Adoptions

  After growing unease with his country's adoption process, the president of Guatemala said he will suspend adoptions from his country starting Jan. 1, 2008, leaving 3,000 children already in the process of being adopted in limbo and countless other families mulling adoption to look elsewhere in the world.  The country's president said he is taking the measure -- seen by some as extreme in that it ignores the fate of what will quickly be thousands of abandoned children -- amid growing concerns about the current system, which opponents say has led to paying mothers for children or coercing them to give up their babies. Read More... Posted Oct 04 2007, 07:08 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: angelina jolie, Madonna, Mary-Louise Parker, international adoption, Guatamala

• Babble Talk: Interview With Mary-Louise Parker

  I admit, I've always had a bit of a thing for Mary-Louise Parker ever since I saw her in Fried Green Tomatoes.  Mary-Louise seemed quirky and eccentric yet strong, just the sort of person I'd be if I was shorter and a brunette.  And famous.  (And buff!  Have you seen her lately?  She does "over-40" proud.)  And Ada Calhoun's recent interview with Mary-Louise does not disappoint; in fact, the actress seems to be living an idyllic life with her three-year-old son, playing the urban mom while introducing him to the joys of art through frequent museum trips and walks through the park while at the same time trying to provide him with balance and down-time.  In short, Mary-Louise Parker seems to be doing what we all aspire to: enjoying our children, teaching them about the things we feel are important in life, while at the same time remaining true to ourselves. Posted Apr 10 2007, 04:34 PM by Karen Murphy with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: parenting, urban living, babble talk, Mary-Louise Parker