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• Ranch for Adopted Kids Gone Wild

  This is one of those things where you're happy that there are people out there doing good things so that you can live in complete and comfortable oblivion about the problem they live with and deal with and try to make better on a daily basis: a ranch for adopted children whose desperate families cannot handle them. It turns out, a statistically small but growing number ... Read More... Posted Jan 21 2008, 06:02 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: adoption, adoptive parents, adopted son, international adoptions, international adoption, troubled, trauma, adoptive family, LA Times, adoption reversal, adoption disruption, ranch, montana

• Fat Guy Gets Go-Ahead to Adopt

  A super overweight guy who was convinced that a judge denied him custody of his cousin’s son because of the man’s size has once again regained custody of the little boy. Now the wheels are in motion ... Read More... Posted Jan 08 2008, 04:27 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: adoption, foster parents, custody battles, obesity, foster care, overweight, adoptive parents, custody battle, adopted son, custody, forster child, adoptive family, custody disputes, foster parenting, foster family, adoption reversal

• Couple Who Adopted Girl Wants to Give Her Back

  Some decisions are irreversible: amputation, for example, or gambling away an entire paycheck. Oh, and adoption. But a Dutch family living in Hong Kong doesn’t seem to think so. They are working to give back the Korean-born daughter they adopted seven years ago when she was four months old. The reason?   Read More... Posted Dec 11 2007, 02:38 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 12 comment(s) Filed under: adoption, foster care, Dutch, Hong Kong, adoption reversal