Here we go again ...

Or not.

It's the is she or isn't she tempest in a Quanlong teapot, the cash cow that is the media mania of yet another possible adoption by the mom everyone loves to hate, Madonna.

Yes, rumor is rife that a little girl named "Mercy" ... and boy won't that come in handy as the frenzy hits the fan? ... should be coming home in April.

At least at this point the reports are mentioning that legalities are being adhered to, and a time frame of eighteen months should keep the talk of celebrity instant adoption down to a dull roar.

If you'd like a little journey down the memory lane of Madonna's last adoption from Malawi and my take on it, here's a link to some of my very own blather from way back when.

From Korea, some reaction to an NPR report in the US is getting some coverage.

Tied to the recent International Korean Adoptees Associate gathering in Seoul and some comments made on NPR at the time, an "All Things Considered" broadcast that included a "roundabout criticism of Korea's 'exports of orphans'" has made the papers in that country.

A Cuban man trying to reclaim a 4-year-old daughter now being raised by a wealthy Cuban-American foster family in Miami has been in the news there, as a judge, Jeri B. Cohen, takes at attorney for Florida's Department of Children & Families (DCF) to task.

When the attorney claimed experts said the child would suffer "irreparable harm" from the father's efforts to bring her home, the judge responded with:

"What you're trying to do is say that if a father wants to remove his child from placement....that if a father does that or a mother, that constitutes prospective abuse? I have never seen anything like this in all of my years of doing dependency."

She then dismissed a charge against the father and allowed a trial to go forward to determine custody.

DCF is maintaining that the father abandoned the girl when he sent her to America with her mother who was soon hospitalized, leaving the girl no support. They are also saying the child does not want to go back to Cuba.

Tangled ...

From Vietnam, a story of reunion tells of a baby lost forty years ago during the confusion of war, then found again earlier this month.

The boy was less than eight-months-old on the 19th of May in 1967 when he disappeared as his mother hid during a bombing raid, and his parents have been looking for him ever since even though they assumed he may have died during the bombing.

Through a convoluted set of circumstances, the child ended up being adopted by a doctor in Ha Tinh, and eventually managed to track down his mother who could identify him through a birthmark.

That must have been a moment!