Granddad is Telling My Life Story Again

By Guest Blogger Leslie Mitchell My daughter was born in Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan, Russian Federation in 2003.  I adopted her as a single mother in 2004.  She was slightly more than one year old and the only life she knows is the life she has with me and her family.  She has known she is adopted from her earliest memories.  When I began the adoption process I spoke with friends who were adopted or had adopted children.  Each person told me their life story and gave me valuable insight that I was able to use with my daughter.  I ...

An Adoption Nightmare

By RUSSELL GOLDMANMay 14, 2008 Moments after their newly adopted adolescent daughters stepped off the plane from India in 1998, Desiree and David Smolin knew something was wrong. “The agency told us the girls were eager to be adopted and eager to come to the U.S.,” Desiree Smolin told ABCNEWS.com. “But in reality, the girls were in terrible, terrible emotional shape. They were avoidant and deeply depressed; one of them was suicidal. I had never seen people so emotionally disturbed in my entire life.”   …continue reading   An Adoption Nightmare