I'm introducing a new feature on this blog, and I just couldn't resist the alliterative sound of "Wednesday's World Wide Web Wanderings." It's perhaps the most unwieldy blog-post title ever (in the future it will be shortened to "Web Wanderings" or something similarly more manageable!), but for today, at least, I harkened to the siren call of excess alliteration. 

--I'm very much agreeing with this blog post from another prospective adoptive parent adopting from Ethiopia about the importance of not conveying only negative aspects about a child's home country. In our eagerness to help our children's home countries, it can be all too easy to post about numbers of dying orphans or food shortages. We want to raise awareness, and that is admirable. However, a constant stream of images of starving children ultimately reduces a country's rich history to little more than a Sally Struthers infomercial. Worse still, it unintentionally teaches our children that their heritage is tainted, that they have nothing to be proud of in their home country. Instead, we all must highlight the many positive aspects of our children's birth cultures--both for our children's benefit and our own.