From Mother Jones, an article on the tribulations of global adoption: The answers are never easy when you enter the labyrinth of global adoption. Looking for their children’s birth mothers: Adoptive parents are increasingly trying to pry open international adoptions by searching for the biological mothers of their children, but finding them can turn out to be the easy part. Rush, little baby: How the push for infant academics may actually be a waste of time — or worse. After Chick Lit, welcome to "baby-sick lit": A review of Baby Proof by Emily Giffin; The Baby Trail by Sinead Moriarty; The Secret Life of a Slummy Mummy by Fiona Neill; and A Bad Bride’s Tale by Polly Williams. What’s in a name? When boys adopt girls’ names and girls adopt boys’, the results aren’t always gender-neutral. A review of Father Knows Less: Or "Can I Cook My Sister?" One Dad's Quest to Answer His Son's Most Baffling Questions by Wendell Jamieson and The Book of General Ignorance by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson. Getting a Life: An article on the challenge of emerging adulthood. The Odyssey Years: The decade of wandering that frequently occurs between adolescence and adulthood is a sensible response to modern conditions. Laura Rosenbury (WU-StL): Friends with Benefits? From Policy Review, an article on friends and the law: Can public policy support the institution of friendship? Parents die, children leave, marriages break down, employers don't need you, but a good friend may see you through it all. And of course, few things hurt more than the loss of true friendship.
