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Childhood Stress becomes Adult Health Problem

STUNNING ACE STUDY:  Childhood stress becomes adult health problem



On April 26, 2007, I went to hear a talk given by Dr. Robert Anda, co-author of the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) study. Anda is a senior consultant to the Center for Disease Control (CDC). Essentially CDC scientists have made a connection between human behaviors like substance abuse and physical inactivity to causes of death or disability from chronic disease.



The ACE study and its rating system connects a child's e...

The Change in Adoption

The one thing all adopted persons share in common is that somewhere, some time, a decision was made that was intended to be in their "best interest." Whether infant or older child, domestic or international, stepparent, relative, or "stranger" adoption, that "best interest" was present. As the adoption community becomes more visible and more vocal, the entire institution of adoption has changed in response to the experiences of today's adult adoptees.





• Late discovery adoptees (LDAs), those...

Comments about FIND MY FAMILY TV SERIES and Reunions

I wanted to include this in my blog. I was contacted by the producers of Find My Family last year but I had already done my reunion. No word yet on this series and if it will continue.



New TV Show Highlights Adoption Search-and-Reunion Stories

by Kathie Forward

A new television program on ABC, called Find My Family, focuses on search and reunion, primarily adoption-related. It is hosted by two adult adoptees, including Tim Green, author of A Man and His Mother, the story of his search for ...

My great-great-great grandfather was Osborne Bland (KY)

A vision of unity: The Bland family in England and America, 1555-1900 is available at libraries



From Among Cousins newsletter: Vol. 4, Number 2 July - December 1986 (published by family genealogist Charles Bland)



1. Osborne Bland:

One of the oldest and most persistent questions about Osborne is what was the maiden name of his wife Letitia. Marian Daniels has offered the possibility that she was a Peake, because Osborne's brother William married a Sarah Peake and the Peake family had consid...

Lona Dell (Harlow) Bland, my grandmother

This is my birthfather Earl W. Bland's mother, Lona Dell Harlow. I write about her in ONE SMALL SACRIFICE - when I saw this photo, I knew this was my family before the DNA test with Earl in 1994.