Matir Asurim

Although I am not blogging the entire cycle this year (still waiting for suggestions on a good theme), I am still going to synagogue regul...

UPDATE!!!! As I said yesterday , about 85% of children with special needs who find themselves in adult institutions in Eastern Europe die ...

Here in the US, orphanages were mostly phased out in the 1970's, as it was determined that foster care provides better opportunities for...

An orphan died.  Last week?  2 weeks ago?  We don't really know.  At some point a file was updated, and we learned that this little bo...

This little boy is the same age as my youngest child: Only 3 years old, his head is too heavy for him to even sit up, so he lies in hi...

I have talked on this blog about helping abandoned/orphaned children through adoption or in-country program s.  There is another kind of pro...

Is there "one special child" waiting there for you? No.  There are many thousands of individual children, each of them totally r...

Since I became aware of the wholesale abandonment and neglect of children with special needs in most of the world - even places I thought we...

NBC News just put up a 3-part series on the predicament of children and adults with special needs in Serbia.  This contains much footage fr...

Two families caught in the Russian Adoption Ban limbo found themselves waiting in the same Moscow hotel for court decrees for their new chil...

It seems that Russia has decided to honor the bilateral agreement reached last year, and delay putting the ban on adoption by Americans un...

By a confluence of the common calendar and the Jewish calendar, the final chapter we read in 2012 is also the final chapter of the book of G...

Here are 2 children who should get a family quickly.  They each have a huge grant for their adoption, so the financial burden on prospectiv...

Bulgaria often releases the files of some children with special needs for a month or two, during which time they are available through adopt...

I was thinking today about the Water and Fire metaphors again.  The children who are in really bad shape make me want to swoop in and save...

Whoa!  Somebody is looking out for Sasha : Sasha was recently transferred to a remote, underfunded mental institution for older chi...

I just read something about Down syndrome that I didn't know!  Noah's Dad wrote about Infantile Spasms , which apparently occur i...

Check out the Reece's Rainbow pages for the youngest boys and girls with Down syndrome.  They are so squishy and adorable!  And so young...

I followed a link from Susanna Musser's blog today, and found this metaphor for the predicament of special-needs children trapped in i...

I have written a lot about what happens to children with severe cognitive or physical disabilities in the orphanages and institutions of Eas...