I was very excited to get these early pictures of the progress on the new boys toddler house at Orphanage Emmanuel (OE) in Guaimaca, Honduras. It will be occupied by older toddler boys, who graduate from the toddler house but still act as toddlers. The World Orphan Fund paid for half of the $45,000 (U.S.)…

Foreign adoptions by Americans have dropped by more than half since 2005 — from around 22,000 per year, to 9,300 last year. Just in the past year, the number of U.S. adoptions of Ethiopian children has dropped 30 percent. It’s become an all too familiar story in the world of international adoption. The nations that…