Over the past five years, Glandt said, adoptions of foreign children by Americans have dropped by about 60 percent. By Robert C. Lopez, News & Record
Scott and Rachel Lawry adopt brother and sister from Ukraine. The couple raised money for adoption through gifts and yard sales. -Story by Kym Klass, The Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser
The reality stars, both of whom are little people, have adopted a 3-year-old boy who also has a form of dwarfism. -By Charlotte Triggs/People.com
Vietnam and the United States are close to an agreement allowing Americans to adopt Vietnamese children again. -By Chris Brummitt, Associated Press
The bitter legal struggle of an American couple to adopt a Korean baby is touching on nationalist and ethnic sensitivities in South Korea. -By Donald Kirk|The Christian Science Monitor
The number of foreign children adopted by Americans has plunged to its lowest level in more than a decade as some countries have cut back on adoptions to the United States and others have struggled to meet stricter standards intended to combat corruption and child trafficking. -By Rachel L. Swarns/NY Times
President Vladimir Putin says a draft bill banning U.S. adoptions of Russian children is a legitimate response to a new U.S. law that calls for sanctions on Russians deemed to be human rights violators. But he has not committed to signing it. -By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV, Associated Press
The adventure Abeba speaks of began in 1994, when she was 4-years old and a Fort Campbell soldier named Billy Dickens walked into her hospital room in Addis, Ethiopia. -Written by Tavia D. Green, Leaf-Chronicle
The number of international adoptions in Pennsylvania dropped in half the past five years because of rising costs, new restrictions and some countries closing adoption programs. -By The number of international adoptions in Pennsylvania dropped in half the past five years because of rising costs, new restrictions and some countries closing adoption programs. -By Rachel Weaver, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Cambodia has decided to lift its 3-year-old ban on adoptions of children by U.S. citizens, the country's foreign ministry has announced. - UPI.com
A 50-year-old American expatriate went through an emotional and expensive adoption process in the Philippines in taking custody of a Filipino child. -By Helen Flores, The Philippine Star
Kristen and Peter wanted to adopt a child even before they met. When the couple first began dating, they said, one of the things that attracted them to one another was their desire to adopt a child with a special need for a family. -By Army Sgt. Adrianna Barnes, 16th Combat Aviation Brigade
US lawmakers vote to remove barriers for adopting North Korean refugee orphans. -Radio Free Asia
Eastern European culture came alive in Dallas at a recent gathering of adopted children and families celebrating their Russian roots. -The Baptist Standard
While ethical domestic adoptions have the support of social workers, psychologists and studies to support adoptees and help guide birth parents and adoptive parents, families in open international adoptions are on their own. -By ELIZABETH FOY LARSEN
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