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Emmy-winning actress Mariska Hargitay was surprised at the speed of the new adoption.
“Law & Order Special Victim’s Unit” star Mariska Hargitay has just adopted baby number two, just six months after adopting her first.
Earlier this year they adopted their daughter, Amaya Josephine, and have just announced they’re adopting a son, Andrew Nicolas. People magazine says the couple was surprised the second adoption went through so quickly, and that it actually took only one week after “processing their paperwork.” The Emmy and Golden Globe winner and her husband Peter Hermann also have a 5-year-old son named August.
Hargitay joins a long line of Hollywood celebrities who have adopted children, including Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, Hugh Jackman, Katherine Heigl, Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw, Madonna and Sandra Bullock.
Will a PSA be able to undo Glee's misinformation about adoption?
One of the plots on the super-successful musical teen drama Glee revolves around head cheerleader Quinn’s unwanted pregnancy and the subsequent adoption of her baby by Rachel’s birth mother, Shelby. A woman who gave up Rachel when she herself was an unwed too-young mother and then spurned her birth daughter’s attempts to reconnect later when she suddenly reappeared in Rachel’s life.
Confused?
Well, it gets more confusing, as Jezebel explains, because the newest plot twist of Quinn vowing to get her baby back from the adoptive mother has adoption activists in an uproar. The show has jumped from being dramatic to just plain foolish and irresponsible in its misrepresentation of the reality of adoption. Continue reading »
Should couples be able to buy custom-made babies?
Surrogacy has become a well-established road to parenthood for many couples.
Surrogates form agreements with couples stipulating how and when the surrogate will become pregnant, with whose eggs and sperm. They agree about where the birth will take place. They agree on compensation to the surrogate for her time and the burden of carrying a pregnancy.
In the normal order of things, all these details are sorted out and signed into a contract before the baby is conceived.
A group of prominent fertility advocates have now been accused of reversing the order of operations: they would hire a woman to become pregnant, and then shop her fetus around to prospective parents.
Court ruling or no, how do you give up your child — even if it is to her birth mother?
My heart goes out today to a little girl and her parents — all three of them.
A Guatemalan girl was apparently kidnapped in 2006 and smuggled of her native country by a child trafficking ring under a new name and adopted by a couple in the United States. It was reportedly unbeknownst to the U.S. couple that the little girl was wrongfully taken from her mother.
Five years after the girl was snatched, a judge in Guatemala is ordering the couple to return their adopted daughter to her birth mother, who is represented by the human rights group, the Survivors’ Foundation.
John Wyatt says he'll never give up fighting for his daughter.
She’s his biological daughter. He has fought for the right to have custody of her since her birth, yet the Utah Supreme Court has ruled that a Virginia man granted custody of his daughter in that state has no claim to the child in Utah — where the girl was ultimately adopted.
How could a father – who, by all accounts, is a responsible man – want to raise his daughter and be denied?
Here is what happened:
Will New York's new gay marriage law fuel an adoption boom?
With legal marriage just around the corner for gay New Yorkers, adoption agencies and lawyers are prepping for a surge in demand from newly married gay couples.
It’s already perfectly legal for gay and lesbian couples to adopt in New York. But some experts believe that having a marriage license will make many folks feel more comfortable and secure doing it. There’s no data yet on whether or not gay and lesbian couples are adopting more children in the five other state where gay marriage is legal. That won’t become available until the results of the 2010 census are published later this year.
Anecdotal evidence suggests that marriage leads to a feeling of security and family, which makes more gay couples confident in adopting a child.
A family tree used to be a simple affair: mother, father, kids, their spouses and eventual children. People were linked on a family tree by blood or marriage. While that never accounted for everyone – there have always been children born outside of marriages, adoptions, and family secrets – it gave a decent facsimile of a family’s history.
These days, it’s become much more complex.
Many people choose not to marry. Over 40 percent of Americans have stepfamilies. And where do you put the sperm donors?
The New York Times reports that in grappling with these issues, some families have created separate trees: one for medical reality, and one for emotional.
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