Comments on: Adoption Dialogues http://radicaldoula.com/2008/02/16/adoption-dialogues/ Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:50:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: femdujour http://radicaldoula.com/2008/02/16/adoption-dialogues/#comment-5394 femdujour Sat, 12 Apr 2008 23:21:55 +0000 http://radicaldoula.com/?p=167#comment-5394 i have a fabulous prof from my grad studies in hist at queen's univeristy named karen dubinsky who is currently writing a book on transnational adoption. she is absolutely wonderful and this book will be a fascinating read. it should be published in the coming year, so keep an eye out for it! she and her partner had adopted a boy from guatemala, so this writing project grew out of contemplations of her own experience with transnational adoption -- both into a same-sex-parented family and across racial/post-colonial boundaries. that name again is karen dubinsky. and she rocks my socks. i have a fabulous prof from my grad studies in hist at queen’s univeristy named karen dubinsky who is currently writing a book on transnational adoption. she is absolutely wonderful and this book will be a fascinating read. it should be published in the coming year, so keep an eye out for it!

she and her partner had adopted a boy from guatemala, so this writing project grew out of contemplations of her own experience with transnational adoption — both into a same-sex-parented family and across racial/post-colonial boundaries.

that name again is karen dubinsky. and she rocks my socks.

]]> By: imtina http://radicaldoula.com/2008/02/16/adoption-dialogues/#comment-5250 imtina Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:57:44 +0000 http://radicaldoula.com/?p=167#comment-5250 These are great questions to be asking. They are insightful and thoughtful questions. That the gay and lesbian community ( a large group of potential prospective adoptive parents ) from what I've seen has overwhelmingly shown sensitivity to the larger issues involved in adoption and surrogacy. The more adoptive parent blogs I see, the more I see how much the typical, heterosexual, traditionally married (not to mention Christian) people could learn from this kind of openness that I read here in this post. Thank you for linking to Elizabeth Larson's article which is a wonderful article for anyone to read about international adoption. Tina These are great questions to be asking. They are insightful and thoughtful questions. That the gay and lesbian community ( a large group of potential prospective adoptive parents ) from what I’ve seen has overwhelmingly shown sensitivity to the larger issues involved in adoption and surrogacy. The more adoptive parent blogs I see, the more I see how much the typical, heterosexual, traditionally married (not to mention Christian) people could learn from this kind of openness that I read here in this post. Thank you for linking to Elizabeth Larson’s article which is a wonderful article for anyone to read about international adoption.

Tina

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