The big news with the adoption label today has to be about the New York woman arrested in Florida for multiple child abuse charges.

According to the now more than 96 news articles ... and counting, as I'm sure by tomorrow the hundred mark will be left in the dust ... chasing the story within the past few hours, Judith Leekin adopted 11 children in New York City between 1993 and 1996 from the foster care system, using four different agencies, a slew of different identities and hefty bags full of lies and slime.

At the time of the arrest, five teenagers... more

We read a lot about Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FAS) here on the blogs from adoptive parents dealing with the issues their children live with after their pre-birth exposure, and this article from Canada expands the conversation, looking at the damage down the road.

Starting with a 19-year-old with problems in many aspects of her processing life as it comes, and going on to call FAS an "under-recognized national disaster",... more

A Dutch couple has reportedly been arrested in Sri Lanka on charges of attempting to illegally adopt a child.

They are alleged to have been prepared to pay a "large sum of money to complete the adoption, and had intended to smuggle the child from Sri Lanka to the Netherlands."

Given that Holland is a Hague country, if the story is true ... and I'm having a heck of a time finding corroboration, as the few clips around are verbatim copies of one very short release ... it would be interesting to learn how the child... more