Posted in Experiences on Nov 13th, 2007 51 Comments »
The following commentary is written by Tracy, an adoptive parent of two children. I was a PLAN family, I try not to say that very often because 1) I don’t think it’s relevant to most of what I post and 2) in many peoples eyes it automatically discredits anything I am about to say. I [...]
Posted in Experiences on Oct 26th, 2007 5 Comments »
Written by Dianna Brodine, a Prospective Adoptive Parent who is traveling to Vietnam to adopt in early November. What responsibility does the AP (or long-time PAP) have to educate new PAPs? Even before I open this dialogue with you, I should explain that 20 months ago I was one of ‘those’ PAPs. We had talked [...]
Posted in Experiences, Tools & Resources on Oct 20th, 2007 48 Comments »
Nicki and I have received several comments, on the blog and privately, suggesting it was a mistake to post the guest commentary about a corrupt facilitator in Vietnam. That it was, in fact, irresponsible for us to do so. There are concerns that the source or the information is unverified. Or that we should have [...]
Posted in Ethics, Experiences on Oct 19th, 2007 39 Comments »
The following account was submitted to the editors of VVAI by a well-connected American currently living in Vietnam who is seeking to adopt and wishes to remain anonymous. It seems that it works like this: Americans that get so far along in the adoption process as to arrive in VN are, for lots of reasons [...]
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