Everett - Response to 4,5,6

I feel that your blog is interesting to read, and well done. Nice job on your citations, 95 each time. Your notes seemed to become slighly less informative as I went on, I don't know if this is because the article was less informative but your article #6 was the weakest of all of them. I felt that you might have been able to give more information on what the man did in the adoption scam. Good work though. Keep it up.

EM

Katie's 3rd Response

Samara, everything in your articles was correct except for your citations, where you did not put the author's surname first (Moran, Katie). Besides that, I thought the information you've been coming across is very interesting and you're doing a good job connecting with it. Have you found anything about adoption in overpopulated countries, where they're trying to encourage it, like China? That would be a different perspective to the article on Russia. Also, do you think you're going to steer your research towards an international level, or focus it within the US? I'm not sure if there are any adoption agencies around here, or in Maine at all, but they would obviously be a good source to get in touch with. If they were willing, you could also talk to parents who have adopted, and find out what it was like, how long it took, how much money, any strains caused by the process, the reasons.
Nice work!

Jeanette's 3rd Response

Hey Samara. I like your blog and I like your focus about a broad rage of topics under 'Adoption.' The notes were pretty informative. One suggestion I want to make is to put more of your thoughts in the responses. They were good, but if you added more of your thoughts, I think it would help you when you have to write your I-Search. I like where this is going!

p.s, Did you hear/read about the new Maine adoption laws that went into effect this past month? The laws gave adults who had been adopted the right to their birth certificate and information about their birth-parents.