August 18th, 2009
The Money Diaries: The 20-something semi-conscious spender
48 comments — written on August 11th, 2009
Today is another post in the Money Diaries series, which is based off New York Magazine’s Sex Diaries. We’ve collected stories from real people about their spending habits over seven days, anonymized them, and posted them here.
Today’s post is by a 24-year old social worker who also ...
August 4th, 2009
1. “Just because we place children doesn’t mean we’re good people.”
Adoption may seem like an altruistic endeavor, but it’s also big business—and a loosely regulated one at that. “Nobody’s watching for cheaters,” says Adam Pertman, executive director of the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute and author of Adoption Nation.
Adoption has always been a local, not federal, issue, and statutes governing ...
