-- Want to know pretty much anything and everything about the history of adoption in the U.S.? Check out The Adoption History Project and be staggered at the depth of information featured there. (I know I was!) 

Included is information about all kinds of aspects of adoption--for example, a history of the "orphan trains" of 19th- and 20th-century America (as advertised in the flier at left).

-- "Black Adoption Myths and Realities" from the North American Council on Adoptable Children.

-- A Birth Project explores an issue that I've been pondering lately--whether adopted children from Ethiopia (or any other African country, for that matter) will identify themselves as "African American" or will continue to view themselves exclusively through the lens of their homeland. I think this is more of an issue for older child adoptions, but this article offers good food for thought applicable to children of all ages.

-- "A Family Again, if Only for a Week"--a bittersweet article in the New York Times about a summer camp that reunites separated siblings in foster care. 

-- And on a much less serious note, the satirical article "Brangelina to Accelerate Adoption Binge" made me smile, not so much for its Onion-esque take on celebrity adoption but for how frighteningly plausible the article seemed. Sadly, it doesn't seem like that much of a stretch to believe that "each [adopted child] will receive the Lamborghini of their choice on their 16th birthday and have a teaching hospital bearing their name in their country of origin."