2007 - A Year in Review

By Carrie Craft, About.com Guide

• The year began with the US saying goodbye to former President Gerald Ford, the 38th President of the United States. We remembered how he was a part of adoption history when he authorized Operation Babylift on April 3, 1975. Operation Babylift rescued thousands of infants and children from South Vietnam.

• We imagined being in a foreign land and having to find assistance in caring for a child. We imagined the situation that Anna Mae He's family were in when they thought they had placed their child in a temporary situation only to discover that they had placed her for adoption. Then we imagined what it was like for Anna Mae herself, 8-years-old and about to leave the only family and country she had known to be returned to her biological parents.

• A study came out in February that suggested that adoptive parents spent more money and time with their children then biological parents. I was just happy to hear that someone out there thought I was doing a great job.
  • New Study Finds Adoptive Parents More Invested in Their Children than Biological Parents
• Dr. Phil addressed adoption scams in a two-part series and Queen Latifah spoke with Ellen Degeneres in an interview about domestic adoption being a part of her future.
• Olympic medalist Toby Dawson found his birth father, a year after winning the bronze for the US in the Men's Freestyle Moguls event in the 2006 Winter Olympics.