I’m sure everyone has heard about the traffic jam outside of Beijing, but did you know that it “miraculously” cleared up? The funny thing is, when Letterman started joking about it last night during the monologue and I realized how much of an embarrassment this would be to the Powers That Be in Beijing, I [...]

According to this news story, the CCAA is considering a different policy for home studies. The article states that the CCAA has not yet decided what the new policy will be, but they say they are going to be making changes.
I’ve talked before about how the owner of our agency personally called us a few [...]

I was recently pointed to this article, which talks about the trouble that the sporting goods and apparel industries are having with their in-China production.
Here is a quote from the article:
The causes of China’s seemingly sudden labor shortage were planted many years – even decades ago – and most agree the era of [...]

Here in the U.S., if someone is sentenced to prison and there is no family to take care of the child, then the child goes into the foster care system. I believe there are some women’s prisons that allow a baby to go with the mother if the mother’s stay will be a short one, [...]

Some school systems in the U.S. have stopped teaching cursive, calling it an “obsolete form of writing”. No one writes letters anymore, we send email. In another generation or two it’s likely that cursive will be gone from the general population.
It looks like China is having a similar problem with their characters. The way [...]

NPR ran a very short piece yesterday that basically said Russian adoptions are closed and it doesn’t look like they will be opening back up in the near future.
That didn’t sound right to me, so I went looking. Here is a news article about a family who just returned home from Russia with their child. [...]