About Adoption Buzz

Updated March 2008

I currently live in Hanoi.

I started Adoption Buzz in October 2006 with a commitment to track and report on current events, adoption laws, and changing adoption policy facing the world of international adoption. With hundreds of adoption agencies to choose from, many adoption websites, and a nearly endless choice of adoption-based chatrooms providing information and opinions about international adoption, adoptive families and adoption professionals face many sources of information that often offer conflicting reports.

When this information is misinformation it can lead to division within the international adoption community; creating dissension among adoption agencies and adoptive families and interfering with the ability of these two groups to enhance the lives of the very children who need our support.

Blogs can be a great way to bring together these multiple sources of information through links, quotations, commentary and feedback. Adoption Buzz will seek to bring increased accountability and objectivity to the online forums for international adoption. Whether simply connecting readers to the multiple sources of information being updated across the international adoption web-world or addressing the common themes of concern facing adoptive families, Adoption Buzz aims to unite the international adoption community and enhance the ability of those involved to better serve orphan children.  

About the Editor: Tad Kincaid

I grew up in Oregon and attended college at the University of Idaho. After graduating I took a year off to work for a small adoption agency. During the course of the year, I directed the agency’s summer host program and had the opportunity to work with 50 families adopting children from Kazakhstan through the program. This program helped me to develop a passion for the placement of older orphan children - children whom are often overlooked and left without opportunities to be placed into permanent adoptive homes. Fueled with a desire to pursue a career that would allow me to work in adoption, I attended and graduated from law school at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

For the past 8 years I have worked in international adoption. The experiences that I have gained have been amazing: I have been able to coordinate hosting programs that provide older orphan children an opportunity to be matched into adoptive homes. I have worked as a caseworker guiding adoptive families through the paperwork and adoption process. I have directed international programs, traveling extensively, coordinating foreign staff, and working closely with foreign governments and the corresponding US Embassies in China, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Russia, Ukraine, and Vietnam. Each of these experiences has helped to further my appreciation and support for international adoption. But the greatest influences affecting my appreciation for international adoption have come from those I have gained as the oldest brother to 5 adopted siblings: traveling overseas for giving and receiving ceremonies, walking through the orphanages where they would have grown up, understanding the joys and challenges of open versus closed domestic adoption, experiencing adoption from Romania and Vietnam and the unexpected special needs such as attachment disorder and cerebral palsy that can be part of adoption. My life has been greatly enriched by adoption and I wish the same on each family who takes the courageous steps towards welcoming an orphan child into their home through adoption.

Though I don't always have the opportunity to respond to each email, I can be reached at adoptionbuzz@gmail.com.

Disclosures

I work for Orphans Overseas, an international adoption agency with adoption programs in several of the countries that may be discussed within this blog. To maintain the integrity of this site I will not promote, link to, or advertise Orphans Overseas on any comments or postings. Though commentary may sometimes be directed to issues affecting Orphans Overseas’ adoptive families, my commentary represented throughout this blog does not represent the position of Orphans Overseas.

Legal

This blog represents my opinion on matters pertaining to international adoption. Although I am committed to providing readers and participants with an accurate resource for topics of international adoption, listings are intended to be viewed as commentary and cannot be read as fact. I do not represent this site as a source of factual content and expect each reader to use this site as a resource that, when read with other resources, may present a better understanding of the current pulse of international adoption. The site also includes many links to third party websites. Adoption Buzz is not responsible for the content of these outside sources.

Updated March 2008

I currently live in Hanoi.

I started Adoption Buzz in October 2006 with a commitment to track and report on current events, adoption laws, and changing adoption policy facing the world of international adoption. With hundreds of adoption agencies to choose from, many adoption websites, and a nearly endless choice of adoption-based chatrooms providing information and opinions about international adoption, adoptive families and adoption professionals face many sources of information that often offer conflicting reports.

When this information is misinformation it can lead to division within the international adoption community; creating dissension among adoption agencies and adoptive families and interfering with the ability of these two groups to enhance the lives of the very children who need our support.

Blogs can be a great way to bring together these multiple sources of information through links, quotations, commentary and feedback. Adoption Buzz will seek to bring increased accountability and objectivity to the online forums for international adoption. Whether simply connecting readers to the multiple sources of information being updated across the international adoption web-world or addressing the common themes of concern facing adoptive families, Adoption Buzz aims to unite the international adoption community and enhance the ability of those involved to better serve orphan children.  

About the Editor: Tad Kincaid

I grew up in Oregon and attended college at the University of Idaho. After graduating I took a year off to work for a small adoption agency. During the course of the year, I directed the agency’s summer host program and had the opportunity to work with 50 families adopting children from Kazakhstan through the program. This program helped me to develop a passion for the placement of older orphan children - children whom are often overlooked and left without opportunities to be placed into permanent adoptive homes. Fueled with a desire to pursue a career that would allow me to work in adoption, I attended and graduated from law school at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

For the past 8 years I have worked in international adoption. The experiences that I have gained have been amazing: I have been able to coordinate hosting programs that provide older orphan children an opportunity to be matched into adoptive homes. I have worked as a caseworker guiding adoptive families through the paperwork and adoption process. I have directed international programs, traveling extensively, coordinating foreign staff, and working closely with foreign governments and the corresponding US Embassies in China, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Russia, Ukraine, and Vietnam. Each of these experiences has helped to further my appreciation and support for international adoption. But the greatest influences affecting my appreciation for international adoption have come from those I have gained as the oldest brother to 5 adopted siblings: traveling overseas for giving and receiving ceremonies, walking through the orphanages where they would have grown up, understanding the joys and challenges of open versus closed domestic adoption, experiencing adoption from Romania and Vietnam and the unexpected special needs such as attachment disorder and cerebral palsy that can be part of adoption. My life has been greatly enriched by adoption and I wish the same on each family who takes the courageous steps towards welcoming an orphan child into their home through adoption.

Though I don't always have the opportunity to respond to each email, I can be reached at adoptionbuzz@gmail.com.

Disclosures

I work for Orphans Overseas, an international adoption agency with adoption programs in several of the countries that may be discussed within this blog. To maintain the integrity of this site I will not promote, link to, or advertise Orphans Overseas on any comments or postings. Though commentary may sometimes be directed to issues affecting Orphans Overseas’ adoptive families, my commentary represented throughout this blog does not represent the position of Orphans Overseas.

Legal

This blog represents my opinion on matters pertaining to international adoption. Although I am committed to providing readers and participants with an accurate resource for topics of international adoption, listings are intended to be viewed as commentary and cannot be read as fact. I do not represent this site as a source of factual content and expect each reader to use this site as a resource that, when read with other resources, may present a better understanding of the current pulse of international adoption. The site also includes many links to third party websites. Adoption Buzz is not responsible for the content of these outside sources.