Finding out this information was not always simple. In 1940, the New Jersey government enacted laws that required the original birth certificates of children adopted on or after November 19, 1940 to be placed in a sealed file. Adoptees could only access those records under a court order. As ...
This study was undertaken to ascertain the frequency of compatible sibling donors for individuals requiring bone marrow transplantation (BMT) in Ireland. During the study period 1984-89, a total of 392 patients were HLA typed. Of these, 218 (55.6%) had a compatible sibling donor. Among the la...
in what I refer to as the “sandpit incident” which is a vague recollection of being told I’m adopted by two visiting children as we innocently played in the sandpit. For most of my childhood that memory was suppressed and only just recently have ...
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Chances of finding an HLA- matched sibling: The Saudi experience. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2009;15(10):1342-1344.Jawdat DM, Al Saleh S, Sutton P, Al Anazi H, Shubaili A, Tamim H, Hajeer AH. Chances of finding an HLA-matched sibling: The Saudi experience. Biol Blood Marrow ...
I quit writing for a multitude of reasons. The most obvious….being super busy, over-extended, shifted priorities, and down right tiredness. But there is also the real reason….the knowledge…deep in the shadows of my mind…(where the fear lives)…that our adopted children could be locate...
Not long after we had adopted our younger son, I heard about a couple who had adopted 12 children. Each one of these precious kids was considered “unadoptable” because of various physical and mental challenges. All of them required continuous care and since the family was quite wealthy, the...
There’s a large part of me that wishes I had the chance to live with the family I was born into but that thought comes with feelings of guilt, guilt for wishing it in the first place and disrespecting my adopted family. Not meeting my birth parents weighs heavily on me. I’m gratefu...
In the area of cur- riculum, Chen's idea of critical syncretism has been further adopted by educators like Lin (2012) and Tam (2018) who develop curriculum that educates for the transformation of colonial and imperial subjectivities. For example, Lin (2012) 13 "Asia as method" as a...
Who hasn’t gone to the ocean and returned home with beautiful shells, sand dollars, driftwood, or a starfish that was once alive and happy but ultimately suffocated and died so it could become part of a beachy display in the living room? Oceans are full of such riches, and there is ...