Picture: An Open Air Market in Kharkiv from 2000. Everyone lays their goods on the sidewalk.

I know this is a very basic question. But I forgot poverty isn't always defined by lack of money. I assume others folks fall into this thinking too.

try this definition [of poverty] from Benjamin I. Page and James R. Simmons, political scientists at Northwestern University and the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, respectively

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"A person deprived of things that everyone around him has is likely to suffer... more

Part 1 was on Third World Guilt.

Families traveling to Ukraine... especially families adopting older children will have read stories about human trafficking. It used to be called slavery.

This is a major problem for Ukraine. It is a source and a destination for human beings who are used and abused. Many children, men and women (49% of Ukraine) are vulnerable to trafficking.

29% of Ukrainians live under the poverty line (Isn't the line about $50 per month?... more

Adoptive parents should be prepared for a very emotional experience in Ukraine and not just because of the adoption process.

Have you ever traveled to a third world country? Seen poverty up close and personal? Been/are connected with people who struggle to find food to eat? Lived in an area where clean water isn't easily available?

There is something known as "third world guilt" that many adoptive parents people in the land of plenty may feel. My younger brother has traveled the World. He first ran into true poverty in Turkey. His comment was,... more