tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32686050.post6824256559041324448..comments2024-02-11T08:39:14.292-06:00Comments on Baby Toolkit: Food for thought: Sunshine chronicles one family's intergerational story of motherhoodadriennehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11068165000960928380noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32686050.post-35423053721843544462010-05-10T13:39:21.421-05:002010-05-10T13:39:21.421-05:00I have some very good friends currently going thro...I have some very good friends currently going through the domestic adoption process. My sense, from what I hear from them, is that international adoptions are falling out of favor because there is such a huge potential for things to go wrong (like the recent case where the woman sent her adopted son back to Russia). I can't cite statistics but I think that domestic adoptions have gone down in number as more women choose to be single mothers (as the stigma has decreased while social support has increased) but it's far from going away.Travis Spencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09159947187821731766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32686050.post-83691337346856826202010-05-05T15:49:48.820-05:002010-05-05T15:49:48.820-05:00This was my second viewing, and once again my hea...This was my second viewing, and once again my heart was full! <br /><br />Karen raises a question about changes in society. The term “fallen woman” is no longer in our lingo, at least, it’s never said out loud. “Single parent” has replaced “unwed mother”. I am happy about these changes. I am relieved that we are now living in times when someone, like Karen, can make a film about her journey, and a television station is willing to broadcast it. This would not have been possible in the 1970s.<br /><br />I wonder, what process triggered these changes in our thinking and prompted society in the US to be willing to think more inclusively?<br /><br />Thanks, Ramona Kar<br />PS: I have begun a blog on the film at http://blog.sunshinethemovie.com/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com