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4
Nov

Older Child Adoptions Will Increase in International Adoption

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November is National Adoption Month. This month was designated by President Clinton in 1995 to bring awareness to adoption issues and to address the needs of children deprived of loving, permanent homes. During this eighteenth National Adoption Month, the MLJ Adoptions daily blog will focus on an aspect of adoption that continues to grow even ...
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30
Oct

Meet MLJ: Liane Steffes

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Title at MLJ: Adoption Attorney and Chief of Staff What do you actually DO with MLJ? My focus includes external relations and internal operations, developing and drafting policies and procedures, managing quality improvement, and providing legal services. Families are most likely to run into me after their adoptions have been completed, particularly if they reside ...
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28
Oct

Update: Hope For DRC Adoptions

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The Hope for DRC Adoptions campaign was started by MLJ Adoptions and several adoptive parents as a way that individuals, attorneys, adoption agencies, adoptive parents and orphan advocates could collaborate, communicate and come together for one cause – to strengthen and stabilize the adoption process in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The focus of ...
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18
Oct

International Adoption Corruption: Are the adoptive parents always the innocent victims?

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International Adoption Corruption: Are the adoptive parents always the innocent victims? We find that a majority of the focus of international adoption corruption has landed upon the adoption service providers (adoption agencies), foreign service providers (individual in foreign country processing the international adoption), or government officials. These individuals and organizations have been the recipients of ...
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18
Oct

Are all International Adoption Agencies Corrupt?

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I know the adoption professionals that work in MLJ Adoptions and many other adoption agencies, these people are far from corrupt. However, the situations in which an agency is placed or has to work in a foreign country are extremely difficult. First, it is important to understand that anyone working in an international country, specifically ...
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18
Oct

Corruption in International Adoption: A discussion regarding the term corruption in context & cult

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Corruption in International Adoption: A discussion regarding the term corruption in context and culture First and foremost, I want to say that unethical behaviors or procedures in the adoption process hurt most the most vulnerable children in our world, the orphan. In the past 10 years of international adoption our government and other foreign governments ...
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17
Oct

A Day Of Yeses

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Imagine telling a very budget-minded control-freak that for one whole day, she’d have to let go of the very reins that she tightly grasps in her hands and say yes to anything that her children asked. This was our recent experience, and I lived to tell the tale. My husband and I began our adoption ...
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16
Oct

Meet MLJ: Jen Gavin

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Title at MLJ: Associate Program Director for Africa & Asia What do you actually DO with MLJ? I work with our families adopting from Congo. I help them from the beginning of the process all of the way until they bring their child home. What is your favorite part about what you do with MLJ? ...
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14
Oct

Can I Adopt from Vietnam?

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The short answer to the question, “Can I adopt from Vietnam?” is, “Not yet, but maybe soon.” Vietnam has been closed for international adoption by US citizen parents since 2008. However, recently the US Department of State has issued a notice indicating that Vietnam’s government is accepting applications from Hague Accredited Adoption Service Providers to ...
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9
Oct

Angels In Adoption: Lydia Tarr

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We’re pleased to announce that MLJ Adoption, Inc.’s very own, Lydia Tarr, is being recognized as an Angel in Adoption by the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute’s (CCAI) Angels in Adoption Program! The program “honors individuals, couples, organizations that have made extraordinary contributions on behalf of children in need of families.” Lydia is such a ...
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7
Oct

Deborra-Lee Furness, Child Advocate and Angel in Adoption

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Deborra-Lee Furness describes herself as not just an orphan advocate, but a child advocate. Alongside her husband Hugh Jackman, and others like Angelina Jolie and Katherine Heigl, these celebrities are using their status as a platform to advocate for children and orphans around the world, and are bringing awareness to the need for adoption. Both ...
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2
Oct

Meet MLJ: Caitlin Snyder

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Name: Caitlin Snyder Title at MLJ: Administrative Assistant What do you actually DO with MLJ? I am responsible for answering the phones, processing applications and adoption contracts, and communicating with prospective clients. I also keep the calendar up to date. What is your favorite part about what you do with MLJ? I love learning about ...
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11
Sep

Re-homing Disturbing to All Adoption Stakeholders

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Recent news coverage portraying the practice now termed “re-homing” is disturbing to all adoption stakeholders. Re-homing has been described as the practice where struggling adoptive parents seek to place their adopted child with people met through the internet or through social media outlets. The extreme anguish experienced by these families is real and deserves acknowledgement. ...
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29
Aug

MLJ's Annual Adoption Picnic & Extended Education Weekend

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Everyone is invited to this family fun event! This picnic is not reserved just for clients, but open to extended family, prospective adoptive parents, adoption and orphan care advocates, as well as your friends and neighbors. Picnic Activities For the kids, we will have a bounce house, multiple crafts, balloon animals, corn hole & more! ...
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28
Aug

Trust-Based Parenting Principles for all Families

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My son just started kindergarten. After the second day of school we were invited to attend an ice cream social/meet the teacher night at his school. Adjusting to waking up super early, tired and exhausted we headed back to the school to find out more about his new school and his new teacher. After our ...
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26
Aug

Being an Advocate for Your Child

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I am a mother to seven children, three biological and four adopted. I love my children deeply but I have no illusions about “who” they are. I know which ones are prone to misbehave and how they react and I do not usually make excuses for their behavior. When the school calls, I am not ...
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22
Aug

Meet MLJ: Nikki Lux

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Name: Nikki Lux Title at MLJ: Adoption Preparation Coordinator What do you actually DO with MLJ?: I conduct home studies for parents interested in adoption. I teach the core and elective classes that are needed, both online and in the classroom. What is your favorite part about what you do with MLJ?: I enjoy meeting ...
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15
Aug

Katie Couric Show Talks Infertility

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Katie Couric featured many families and their struggles with infertility on her show “Infertility: Stories of Becoming a Parent against All Odds” that aired on August 6, 2013. The show revealed some jaw-dropping statistics about women and their abilities to conceive. A 2011 statistic states that infertility affects over seven million women in the US, ...
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31
Jul

Back To School

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I stood in front of my first grade class with a Poncho, Sombrero, and some Pesos. Feeling more like a tourism commercial about to sell a country I knew very little about, even if Mexico was my birthplace. I was more excited to share about being adopted, than sharing about a culture I have never ...
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30
Jul

The Magic in the Laughter of a Child

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Recently, I was watching a YouTube video of some babies laughing. The more I watched, the bigger I began to smile until eventually I was bursting with laughter myself. There is something infectious about the laughter of a child, almost of magic quality. A quote by Charles Dickens says that, “There is nothing in the ...
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29
Jul

Eight Things I Should Have Known Before I Adopted

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Throughout my life while with orphans and being an adoption professional for 13 years, I knew that my family would include adopted children. I waited patiently (ok not always!) as God continued with his plan for my family. Almost two years ago we welcomed our sons into our family. If you have read any of ...
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