Dissolving an Adoption
It’s Monday, when we talk about family issues on The Takeaway. Takeaway contributor Lisa Belkin, who writes the parenting blog Motherlode for The New York Times, is here to talk with us about what...
View ArticleInternational Adoption or Child Trafficking?
Last week, ten American Baptist community members attempted to take 33 children out of Haiti, claiming their goal was to rescue the children. The Haitian government disagreed and charged the Americans...
View ArticleShould a Parent be Allowed to Return an Adopted Child?
A Tennessee woman who returned her adopted child to Russia is causing a diplomatic crisis. We talk about how it feels to be rejected as an adopted child with Orlando Modeno, a man who lived through the...
View ArticleAdoptees Fight for Access to Original Birth Certificates
There are between six and eight million adopted people in the United States and the vast majority of them will never have access to their original birth certificates. All information on their birth...
View ArticleWhen a Woman Places Her Child for Adoption, Should the Father Have a Say?
When an unmarried woman places her child up for adoption, how much say should the reputed father — or putative father, as they’re referred to legally — have?Courts across the country have been...
View ArticleBecoming a Parent in a State That's Outlawed Gay Adoption
To people in Miami, Charles Perez is a familiar face. He used to be a television news anchor, and he’s currently writing a book called “Confessions of a Gay Anchorman.”But behind Charles’s familiar...
View ArticleFlorida Court Declares Gay Adoption Ban Unconstitutional
Last week, things looked a lot different for aspiring gay and lesbian parents in Florida, where a ban on adoption by gay couples has been in place since the 1970s. But after 13 months, the Third...
View ArticleAdopted Family Relishes Thanksgiving
In January, Lisa Scoppa and her husband, Duke, were in the process of adopting two young Haitian children when the news struck that Port-au-Prince had been hit by a devastating earthquake. The Scoppas...
View ArticleA Man's Mid-life Discovery: His Racial Background
Michael Fosberg was raised in a working class Armenian American family led by his biological mother and adoptive father. When he was in his thirties, his parents decided to divorce. Michael responded...
View ArticleThe Debate Over Defunding Family Planning Programs
Congresswoman Gwen Moore was on The Takeaway to talk about women’s access to family planning and health care services, particularly for poor, black women in the U.S. Congresswoman Moore (D-Wis.) gave...
View ArticleAdopted Chinese Children Learn About Their Roots on 'Heritage Tour'
Official statistics show that since 1999 over 64,000 Chinese babies, most of them girls, have been adopted by Americans. China’s one child policy has caused an increase in the number of children...
View ArticleToday's Takeaway | December 27, 2012
Medical Schools Experiment with Shorter Courses | The Argument Against Increasing Taxes | With Five Days to Go, Fiscal Cliff Hanger Looms | Shortcomings Prevent A.T.F from Curbing Gun Violence | End of...
View ArticleDecember 27, 2012
Medical Schools Experiment with Shorter Courses | The Argument Against Increasing Taxes | With Five Days to Go, Americans Could be Left with Fiscal Cliff Hanger | Shortcomings Prevent A.T.F from...
View ArticleThe End of Russian Adoptions for Americans?
The global conversation on human rights has become a fight over children in Russia.Earlier this month, Congress passed the Sergei Magnitsky Human Rights act, legislation that aims to hold Russian...
View ArticleA Long Search Over? Ohio Breaks Open Seals of Secrecy for Adoptees
For most of us, a birth certificate is just another piece of paperwork in a file we rarely open. It's as ordinary as a social security card, and as unremarkable as a driver's license.But for domestic...
View ArticleThe Takeaway Weekender: To Have or Not to Have Children
The Takeaway Weekender is one for the Family this week. We talk about whether it's selfish to not have children and hear from you on why you chose either path. We speak with Allison Gilbert about her...
View ArticleAssemblyman Jeffries on the Albany Finals
Welcome to Politics Bites, where every afternoon at It's A Free Country, we bring you the unmissable quotes from the morning's political conversations on WNYC. Today on the Brian Lehrer Show, New York...
View ArticleUS-Russia Agreement on Adoptions Takes Effect in November
An agreement aimed at improving the adoption process between the United States and Russia goes into effect in November. It comes two years after a Tennessee woman sent her adopted 7-year-old son alone...
View ArticleNJ Court: Infertile Men, Women Not the Same
New Jersey's Supreme Court upheld a law Wednesday that critics say discriminates against infertile women — ruling that a woman uses a surrogate to give birth with someone else’s eggs cannot be...
View ArticleWhat If There Was No Destiny?
When Barbara Harris was 37, she started wishing she could have a daughter. It was 1989, and by that time only two of her six sons were still at home. So she filled out all the paperwork, and later that...
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