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Single and Old Parents Not Welcome
I posted back in December 2006 that the Ukrainian adoption had become much more difficult. And the SDA was limiting singles to adopting children 7 or older. And the SDA refused to take dossiers from...
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Adoption Law Changes – Single, Max Age
Here is official news from the US Embassy on the Ukrainian adoption law changes. Everyone still is uncertain about how Ukraine is going to enforce the maximum age difference between parent and child....
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Ukraine Adoption Law Hasn’t Changed Yet
I was waiting for the flurry of emails from the US Embassy in Kyiv to stop. It all started with a March 22 2007 email. The US Embassy announced that adoption laws were changing and would be...
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Child Molestation
I really hate this story. I have been sitting on it since it came out on April 4, 2007. I haven’t blogged about it because it makes me sad. I knew John Krueger via email. I thought he was one of the...
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Second Class Love
My daughter Natasha was adopted from Ukraine when she was 3.5 years old. And for some reason today…. I asked her what she thought was an important topic concerning Ukrainian adoption. Her answer: You...
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Living With Anxiety Disorder – PTSD
Natasha was adopted at 3.5 years from a Ukrainian orphanage. She came home with Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). A condition in which victims of overwhelming and uncontrollable experiences are...
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Diagnose and Treat Anxiety Disorder
I mentioned about a week ago that my darling daughter came home from an Ukrainian orphanage with PTSD. She has been home for about 6.5 years now. She is a happy and loving 10 year old with an average...
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Living With Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Last week I asked Natasha to create a picture. (It is posted on the right.) I wanted to see her mental life. What does a life filled with nervous feelings (anxiety disorder) look like? Feelings can be...
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How To Cope With Sleep Issues
The two most common challenges that families experience with post institutionalized children relate to sleep and food. I knew this prior to adopting my darling daughter. But I didn’t realize sleep or...
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Love Thursday – Food Bank
Natasha and I recently toured a food bank. I was amazed to find out that about 11% of the United States population are food insecure. I delighted in Natasha’s very developmentally appropriate behavior...
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