Things were very panicky in the Guatemalan adoption world on Thursday. Short version: UNICEF offered Guatemala $28 million to essentially halt adoptions from that day forward. The President of Guatemala was going to issue an executive order to make it so. Thankfully, the Congress did not support this and combined pressures convinced the President to re-think the order. Moral of the story: if UNICEF is an organization you’ve supported in the past, please read up on their policies before continuing that support. I just saw a commercial for “Trick or Treating for UNICEF”. I thought, yeah, I’ll get right on that.  Here is one perspective on UNICEF and international adoption.  If you want the other side of the story, visit UNICEF’s webpage.
My other piece of interesting news: the woman who skewered me at the conference I had to speak at earlier this week? Yeah, she’s angered the powers that be with her behavior. Now she is in the hot seat. Words like “hostile” and “belligerent” and “damaged the collaborative spirit” were batted around by the powers that be. Heh. That’s a shame.