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• Adoption After Having Biological Kids: What's the Big Deal?

  I got a bit ferklempt watching the recent New York Times video of a May Lee Wong, a NYC principal who just adopted a little girl from Ethiopia after giving birth to three boys. Maybe it was the fact that the little girl, Mebrat, was thought to be three-years-old when she came to the Wong family but was, in fact, a malnourished six-year-old.  More likely? The fact that a family has adopted after having children "of their own." Read More... Posted Jun 01 2009, 12:28 PM by JeanneSager with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: adoption, biological children, stepchildren, Jeanne Sager, adopted children, mixed families, adoptive families

• Divorce Doesn't Lead to Drug Use

  There's lot of doom and gloom out there about the effect of divorce on kids. You don’t have to look far to find another study claiming kids whose parents divorced had a rougher time than kids whose parents stayed married (they never seem to study the effects of being raised with two desperately unhappy parents locked in a dysfunctional marriage "for the sake of the kids," but I digress). A French study would suggest, though, one thing that divorced parents don’t need to worry about is their kid's drug use. The study looked at 16,000 French students ages 12-18 and their  use of alcohol, tobacco or pot within the last 30 days.   Read More... Posted Dec 18 2007, 02:40 PM by Amy Kuras with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: divorce, families, stepchildren, drug use

• Babble Talk: Rebecca Walker: We DON'T Love Our Kids the Same

  Third-wave feminist icon (and estranged daughter of Alice Walker) Rebecca Walker  has a story up today on Babble called "To Each His Own: I can't help it, I love my biological child best." She writes: In my new book, Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood after a Lifetime of Ambivalence, I wrote about some of these feelings, and when a New York Times interview recently repeated them, the reaction was swift . . . How could I be so irresponsible, so politically incorrect, so heartless as to suggest that there was any difference between biological and non-biological love? We wrote about this controversy in last month's "Editor's Note: Stepmom." (And ran stories by Lily Burana and Lisa Selin Davis on their experiences negotiating stepmother-dom.) Now Rebecca tells us why the outraged parents' kids weren't as upset by her comments. Check out the story, and be sure to weigh in in feedback! Posted Jun 18 2007, 05:18 PM by Ada with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: adoption, love, biological children, babble talk, stepchildren, Brady Bunch