<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Adoption.com News</title><link>http://news.adoption.com</link><description>Adoption.com News</description><language>en-us</language><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 15:50:31 +0000</pubDate><lastBuildDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 15:50:31 +0000</lastBuildDate><ttl>60</ttl><item><title>'Profit Culture' Mars Kenya Adoptions</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/InternationalAdoption/profit-culture-mars-kenya-adoptions</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 15:10:32 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/InternationalAdoption/profit-culture-mars-kenya-adoptions</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Two years ago, Ron and Mary Nelson and their four children traveled from Indiana to Nairobi, Kenya, to volunteer at an orphanage for three months. While there, they fell in love with...]]></description></item><item><title>The Ties that Bind are Not Always Blood</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/AdoptiveParenting/the-ties-that-bind-are-not-always-blood</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 15:10:32 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/AdoptiveParenting/the-ties-that-bind-are-not-always-blood</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[When Anjali, Jhilika and Jiya fight or play like any other bunch of siblings, they do it as family. The fact that Jkilika and Jiya have been adopted doesn't come up. And that's the way...]]></description></item><item><title>Nepali Delegates Eye Tupelo Agency for Adoptions</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/InternationalAdoption/nepali-delegates-eye-tupelo-agency-for-adoptions</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 15:04:02 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/InternationalAdoption/nepali-delegates-eye-tupelo-agency-for-adoptions</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[The Nepali government is considering a Tupelo agency as a potential partner in reopening channels of international adoption. A five-member delegation from the Nepali Ministry of Women...]]></description></item><item><title>There are Plenty of Children Who are Waiting for a Gift</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/FosterChildren/there-are-plenty-of-children-who-are-waiting-for-a-gift</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 15:04:02 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/FosterChildren/there-are-plenty-of-children-who-are-waiting-for-a-gift</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Pastors talk a lot about the "gift of life." One Southlake church is turning it into a contest prize. Eleven7, a small church meeting in a school auditorium, will draw names June 15...]]></description></item><item><title>China Swamped with Adoption Offers</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/ChinaAdoption/china-swamped-with-adoption-offers</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 15:04:02 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/ChinaAdoption/china-swamped-with-adoption-offers</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[The government said it was bracing for a growing number of orphans as the death toll mounts from Monday's 7.9-magnitude earthquake, China's deadliest natural disaster in a generation....]]></description></item><item><title>Failed Adoptions 'Fraud, Deception'</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/DomesticAdoption/failed-adoptions-fraud-deception</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 15:04:02 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/DomesticAdoption/failed-adoptions-fraud-deception</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[In the international adoption business, there are few guarantees. A lot can go wrong. But dozens of families across the country who dealt with Adoption Partners of Simpsonville, which specializes...]]></description></item><item><title>Concurrent Planning in Foster Care</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/FosterParenting/concurrent-planning-in-foster-care</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 14:57:55 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/FosterParenting/concurrent-planning-in-foster-care</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Ten years since it arrived in the UK, concurrent planning is making progress as a means of fostering and adoption. Helen Mooney reports...We have overcome our sceptics in the fact...]]></description></item><item><title>Ethiopia: Revised Guideline On Child Care Launched</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/InternationalAdoption/ethiopia-revised-guideline-on-child-care-launched</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 14:57:55 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/InternationalAdoption/ethiopia-revised-guideline-on-child-care-launched</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Participants of a national consultative workshop on the revised guidelines on alternative child care program and sexual abuse and exploitation on Tuesday launched a guideline....]]></description></item><item><title>California Court Strips Children of Right to Mother and Father</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/BirthParenting/california-court-strips-children-of-right-to-mother-and-father</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 14:57:55 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/BirthParenting/california-court-strips-children-of-right-to-mother-and-father</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[In Thursday's 4-3 decision legalizing same-sex marriage, the California Supreme Court stripped children of the right to be raised by a mother and a father. Most of the media coverage of the...]]></description></item><item><title>Adoption Bill Misses the Mark</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/DomesticAdoption/adoption-bill-misses-the-mark</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 14:57:55 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/DomesticAdoption/adoption-bill-misses-the-mark</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[The Ontario government has gone the wrong way in passing Bill 12 this week. The bill concerns the ability of biological parents to contact children they gave up for adoption, and vice versa....]]></description></item><item><title>A First Hand Account of Being an Adoption Social Worker</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/AdoptionProfessionals/a-first-hand-account-of-being-an-adoption-social-worker</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 14:57:55 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/AdoptionProfessionals/a-first-hand-account-of-being-an-adoption-social-worker</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[As a children's services social worker, there are certain aspects of the role that are harder than others. Personally, I have found the responsibility of the adoption process...]]></description></item><item><title>Montgomery Art Gallery Making a Difference in Foster Care</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/FosterChildren/montgomery-art-gallery-making-a-difference-in-foster-care</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 14:51:12 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/FosterChildren/montgomery-art-gallery-making-a-difference-in-foster-care</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[May is "Foster Care Awareness" month and a Montgomery art gallery is doing their part to make a difference. The Heart Gallery of Alabama is displaying their new exhibit titled...]]></description></item><item><title>Cal women's Team Headed for Africa</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/AdoptiveParenting/cal-womens-team-headed-for-africa</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 14:51:12 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/AdoptiveParenting/cal-womens-team-headed-for-africa</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Joanne Boyle wants to adopt a baby from Africa, knowing full well the challenges of raising a child as a single woman coaching college basketball. She is taking her California team...]]></description></item><item><title>Chinese Netizens Move to Adopt Earthquake Orphans</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/ChinaAdoption/chinese-netizens-move-to-adopt-earthquake-orphans</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 14:51:12 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/ChinaAdoption/chinese-netizens-move-to-adopt-earthquake-orphans</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Many Chinese netizens have proposed adopting children who lost parents in Monday's massive earthquake. "I have been in tears in recent days. I pray for people in quake zones...]]></description></item><item><title>Finding Babies a Loving Home</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/AdoptiveParenting/finding-babies-a-loving-home</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 14:48:51 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/AdoptiveParenting/finding-babies-a-loving-home</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[The little girl held a spittoon for her father, a Newport Beach dentist, so he could pull the rotted teeth of orphans in Mexico. It was the first time she realized...]]></description></item><item><title>Have You Ever Thought about Fostering A Child or Adopting?</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/DomesticAdoption/have-you-ever-thought-about-fostering-a-child-or-adopting</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 14:48:51 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/DomesticAdoption/have-you-ever-thought-about-fostering-a-child-or-adopting</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[The British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF) has said there is still a shortage of families looking to permanently look after children in care. The charity has said...]]></description></item><item><title>Malawi Court Delays Madonna Adoption Ruling</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/InternationalAdoption/malawi-court-delays-madonna-adoption-ruling</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 14:48:51 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/InternationalAdoption/malawi-court-delays-madonna-adoption-ruling</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Malawi's High Court delayed on Thursday its ruling on whether U.S. pop diva Madonna may adopt a two-year-old Malawian boy, to allow it to review a new human rights report which...]]></description></item><item><title>DHS Says 10th "Safe Haven" Baby Left at Hospital after Birth</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/DomesticAdoption/dhs-says-10th-safe-haven-baby-left-at-hospital-after-birth</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 14:46:42 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/DomesticAdoption/dhs-says-10th-safe-haven-baby-left-at-hospital-after-birth</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[The Iowa Department of Human Services says the state's Safe Haven law was used for the 10th time about three weeks ago. D.H.S. spokesman Roger Munns says the baby girl was delivered at an...]]></description></item><item><title>Christchurch Group Promotes Open Adoption</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/InternationalAdoption/christchurch-group-promotes-open-adoption</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 14:46:42 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/InternationalAdoption/christchurch-group-promotes-open-adoption</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Voice for Life welcomes the news that a DVD promoting Open Adoption is now available from Adoption Option in Christchurch. Women and girls facing a crisis pregnancy are usually counseled...]]></description></item><item><title>Exchange Program Offers Unsettling, Exciting Adventures</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/ChinaAdoption/exchange-program-offers-unsettling-exciting-adventures</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 14:46:42 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/ChinaAdoption/exchange-program-offers-unsettling-exciting-adventures</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Not only can the adjustment be unsettling and the adventure exciting for exchange students to commit their time to come to the United States, it can be equally as unsettling and exciting for their host...]]></description></item><item><title>MS Walk Reflects Mother's Determination</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/BirthParenting/ms-walk-reflects-mothers-determination</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 14:48:53 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/BirthParenting/ms-walk-reflects-mothers-determination</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA["When life hands you lemons, make lemonade." Kristyn Wosneski of Warwick lives her life with this motto in mind. The 38-year-old and her husband are expecting their first baby in September....]]></description></item><item><title>Children are the Mission</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/InternationalAdoption/children-are-the-mission</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 14:48:42 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/InternationalAdoption/children-are-the-mission</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[At the age of 8 or 9, Hemlata Momaya remembers seeing "Boot Polish," a Hindi movie in her native India. he didn't know it at that time, but the Raj Kapoor movie about orphaned and...]]></description></item><item><title>New Law Could Shut Adoption Agency</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/DomesticAdoption/new-law-could-shut-adoption-agency</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 14:48:42 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/DomesticAdoption/new-law-could-shut-adoption-agency</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[An adoption agency which has re-homed children for more than 100 years is facing closure because of new legislation. The Catholic Children's Rescue Society , described as the 'jewel in the...]]></description></item><item><title>Adair: In Desperate Need of Foster Families</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/FosterParenting/adair-in-desperate-need-of-foster-families</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 14:48:42 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/FosterParenting/adair-in-desperate-need-of-foster-families</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[At a time that awareness of child abuse is at a pinnacle, and the Department of Social Services is justly criticized for mishandling some cases, it says something that the agency has to...]]></description></item><item><title>Welcome to Our Family, Selena</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/AdoptiveParenting/welcome-to-our-family-selena</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 14:48:42 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/AdoptiveParenting/welcome-to-our-family-selena</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[This Easter was a special occasion for my family. My nephew, Jay, and his wife, CeCe, already parents to two wonderful boys, were bringing their soon-to-be-adopted daughter, Selena...]]></description></item><item><title>Iowa Appeals Court Sides with Dad in Adoption Dispute</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/DomesticAdoption/iowa-appeals-court-sides-with-dad-in-adoption-dispute</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 14:44:28 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/DomesticAdoption/iowa-appeals-court-sides-with-dad-in-adoption-dispute</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[An adoption battle is pitting a biological father who is a college student with a criminal history against a couple who are “excellent parents” who wish to adopt a 3½-year-old...]]></description></item><item><title>Happy Homecoming Couple Escapes Quake in China, Returns with Child</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/ChinaAdoption/happy-homecoming-couple-escapes-quake-in-china-returns-with-child</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 14:44:28 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/ChinaAdoption/happy-homecoming-couple-escapes-quake-in-china-returns-with-child</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Methuen resident Nancy Farelli's brother left for China last month to adopt a little boy, and she feared the worst when she couldn't reach him after a powerful earthquake killed...]]></description></item><item><title>Ontario To Open Adoption Records</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/DomesticAdoption/ontario-to-open-adoption-records</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 14:44:28 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/DomesticAdoption/ontario-to-open-adoption-records</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[A new Ontario law will soon give adult adoptees and birth parents access<br />to information that is currently sealed in their adoption records. For years, adoptees and birth parents have...]]></description></item><item><title>Being a Mom is More than Biology</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/GuatemalaAdoption/being-a-mom-is-more-than-biology</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 14:44:28 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/GuatemalaAdoption/being-a-mom-is-more-than-biology</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[While I was in the process of adopting my daughter from Guatemala, I began following certain forums and websites dealing specifically with adoption. Since bringing Marla home, I have continued to...]]></description></item><item><title>Giving A Forever Family to A Chinese Orphan</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/ChinaAdoption/giving-a-forever-family-to-a-chinese-orphan</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 14:39:29 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/ChinaAdoption/giving-a-forever-family-to-a-chinese-orphan</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[If you're thinking about adopting, we want to tell you about a workshop this weekend that could broaden your options. Thousands of Chinese orphans need homes. Local Jefferson Elementary teacher...]]></description></item><item><title>Delhi Couple Going Extra Mile to Adopt Child from Ethiopia</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/InternationalAdoption/delhi-couple-going-extra-mile-to-adopt-child-from-ethiopia</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 14:39:29 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/InternationalAdoption/delhi-couple-going-extra-mile-to-adopt-child-from-ethiopia</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Marcia and John Wright have gone to great lengths to try to become parents. When the Delhi couple realized their chances were slim of naturally conceiving a baby, they spent lots of money and...]]></description></item><item><title>From Russia with Love</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/RussiaAdoption/from-russia-with-love</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 14:36:50 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/RussiaAdoption/from-russia-with-love</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Jan Scholl and Katya Lyzhina have told the story of how Katya came to live with Jan so many times that when one drops a thread the other immediately picks it up. Lyzhina was an 11-year-old...]]></description></item><item><title>Choosing Adoption a `Lonely and Hard Decision'</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/DomesticAdoption/choosing-adoption-a-lonely-and-hard-decision</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 14:36:50 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/DomesticAdoption/choosing-adoption-a-lonely-and-hard-decision</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Hei Hei's Tracey Hill is one of the small number of pregnant women nationwide who will choose to place their baby up for adoption by strangers this year. Since 1968, the annual number of...]]></description></item><item><title>New World of Adoption Opens for Frisco Mother</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/AdoptiveParenting/new-world-of-adoption-opens-for-frisco-mother</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 14:36:50 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/AdoptiveParenting/new-world-of-adoption-opens-for-frisco-mother</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Zan and Taylor Frederickson were quite satisfied with life and raising their two sons, even though the Frisco couple had wanted another child. Then one fall day in 2003, Ms. Frederickson met Alexis...]]></description></item><item><title>An Adoption Nightmare</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/InternationalAdoption/an-adoption-nightmare</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 14:30:51 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/InternationalAdoption/an-adoption-nightmare</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Moments after their newly adopted adolescent daughters stepped off the plane from India in 1998, Desiree and David Smolin knew something was wrong. "The agency told us the girls were eager...]]></description></item><item><title>Make a Massive Difference by Fostering</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/FosterChildren/make-a-massive-difference-by-fostering</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 14:30:41 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/FosterChildren/make-a-massive-difference-by-fostering</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[In England there are more than 60,000 children in care. Almost two thirds of these youngsters are aged five to 15, half have experienced abuse and neglect and most...]]></description></item><item><title>Laughter is the Best Fertility Medicine</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/FertilityNews/laughter-is-the-best-fertility-medicine</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 14:30:41 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/FertilityNews/laughter-is-the-best-fertility-medicine</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Watching the antics of a medical clown after undergoing in-vitro fertilization (IVF) can raise the success rate of infertile women achieving pregnancy by 15 percent, according...]]></description></item><item><title>Southfield Woman Makes a Safe Place for Foster Children</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/FosterParenting/southfield-woman-makes-a-safe-place-for-foster-children</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 14:26:32 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/FosterParenting/southfield-woman-makes-a-safe-place-for-foster-children</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[They're teenage boys, so what do you expect? They wrestle and sometimes they crank their music up too loud, and no, you can't play soccer in the house! They're teenage boys from halfway around...]]></description></item><item><title>Moms-to-be Get on a Better Path</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/BirthParenting/moms-to-be-get-on-a-better-path</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 14:26:32 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/BirthParenting/moms-to-be-get-on-a-better-path</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Twenty-one year-old Amanda Tapec is almost eight months pregnant and six months clean from her crystal methamphetamine addiction. Well on her way to carrying her baby to full term, she...]]></description></item><item><title>‘Open Your Heart to a Foster Child’</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/FosterChildren/-3439</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 14:56:56 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/FosterChildren/-3439</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Imagine being forced to pack your few belongings and move to a new home and a new family. Imagine that you are not making the move with your brothers and sisters, who are being placed in different...]]></description></item><item><title>Woman in 50s Gives Birth to Twin Boys</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/FertilityNews/woman-in-50s-gives-birth-to-twin-boys</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 14:56:56 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/FertilityNews/woman-in-50s-gives-birth-to-twin-boys</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Sital Das Pal, 60, and Sarbani, 52, had been trying to have a child since they married 35 years ago. The couple finally became parents on April 29 when Sarbani gave birth to twins....]]></description></item><item><title>Foster Care Group Honors Mother and Pediatrician for Work</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/FosterParenting/foster-care-group-honors-mother-and-pediatrician-for-work</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 14:56:56 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/FosterParenting/foster-care-group-honors-mother-and-pediatrician-for-work</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[A longtime foster mother and a pediatrician are being honored today for their contributions to the lives of foster children in Ventura County. Pattie Hunt, 49, of Oak View and...]]></description></item><item><title>Gwyneth Paltrow on Her “Nightmare” Pregnancies</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/CelebrityAdoption/-3442</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 14:56:56 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/CelebrityAdoption/-3442</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Gwyneth Paltrow has added to rumours that she’s likely to expand her family by adopting a child after revealing she had “nightmare” pregnancies. The Iron Man star gave birth to daughter...]]></description></item><item><title>Canara Bank to Educate 13 Girls</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/InternationalAdoption/canara-bank-to-educate-13-girls</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 14:48:09 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/InternationalAdoption/canara-bank-to-educate-13-girls</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Canara Bank launched its Girl Child Adoption Scheme, thereby taking the responsibility to educate 13 girls. U.C. Sarangi, the chairman of National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development...]]></description></item><item><title>CBI Goes after Foster Parents in Child Racket</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/FosterParenting/cbi-goes-after-foster-parents-in-child-racket</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 14:45:22 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/FosterParenting/cbi-goes-after-foster-parents-in-child-racket</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[The CBI Anti-Corruption Bureau in Tamil Nadu, which is investigating a child adoption racket that was busted by the city police in May 2005, will try to contact the foreign foster...]]></description></item><item><title>Picking the Best Embryo for IVF</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/FertilityNews/picking-the-best-embryo-for-ivf</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 14:45:22 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/FertilityNews/picking-the-best-embryo-for-ivf</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Genetic fingerprinting can find the best embryo in a batch, upping the odds of success for in vitro fertilization with just one implant. In vitro fertilization, or IVF, has two major drawbacks....]]></description></item><item><title>Couples' Act of Faith Leads to Surrogate Birth</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/BirthParenting/couples-act-of-faith-leads-to-surrogate-birth</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 14:45:22 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/BirthParenting/couples-act-of-faith-leads-to-surrogate-birth</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Nita Andrews is the kind of friend you call when life falls apart. So when Kendra Allen lay in a maternity ward at Baptist Hospital in Nashville two years ago, giving birth to her...]]></description></item><item><title>Foster Care Should Respect Heritage</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/FosterChildren/foster-care-should-respect-heritage</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 14:42:57 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/FosterChildren/foster-care-should-respect-heritage</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[In Washington today, there are more than 10,000 children in foster care. They will spend an average of two years in care, and nearly half (42 percent) will move three or more times....]]></description></item><item><title>First Times Mums Aged 28, on Average</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/FertilityNews/first-times-mums-aged-28-on-average</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 14:42:57 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/FertilityNews/first-times-mums-aged-28-on-average</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[The average age of a first time New Zealand mum is 28. Statistics New Zealand's latest figures show the birth rate has remained relatively stable over the past 30 years, at around two births...]]></description></item><item><title>Number of Babies Available for Adoption Falls Sharply</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/InternationalAdoption/number-of-babies-available-for-adoption-falls-sharply</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 14:42:57 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/InternationalAdoption/number-of-babies-available-for-adoption-falls-sharply</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[A Christchurch group is encouraging women in "crisis" pregnancies to consider adopting their babies out, following a dramatic drop in adoptions outside families....]]></description></item><item><title>Millville Woman Mother to about 2,000 Children</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/FosterParenting/millville-woman-mother-to-about-2-000-children</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 14:37:05 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/FosterParenting/millville-woman-mother-to-about-2-000-children</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Unlike the nursery rhyme about the old woman who lived in a shoe and had a seemingly unwieldy number of children, Peggy Wade-Martin knows exactly what to do. It starts with lots of love; so much love...]]></description></item><item><title>Happy New Parent</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/BirthParenting/happy-new-parent</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 14:37:05 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/BirthParenting/happy-new-parent</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[“Let me be the first to wish you a happy Mother’s Day.” Those were Circuit Court Judge David Gooding’s words to Catherine Graves immediately after he made final the...]]></description></item><item><title>MRCS Adopts Three Babies</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/InternationalAdoption/mrcs-adopts-three-babies</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 14:37:05 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/InternationalAdoption/mrcs-adopts-three-babies</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Asmawati Hassan had a pleasant surprise when her son was among three kids adopted in-conjunction with the World Red Crescent Day celebrations. “It came as a surprise when...]]></description></item><item><title>Mom Says God Led Her to Russia for Children</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/RussiaAdoption/mom-says-god-led-her-to-russia-for-children</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 14:37:05 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/RussiaAdoption/mom-says-god-led-her-to-russia-for-children</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Gina Major-Ackerman receives calls from people all over the country asking her the story of how she became a mother. That’s because almost eight years ago she and her husband, Bill Ackerman...]]></description></item><item><title>Madonna Set to Finalise Adoption</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/CelebrityAdoption/madonna-set-to-finalise-adoption</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 14:37:05 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/CelebrityAdoption/madonna-set-to-finalise-adoption</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Madonna is set to appear in court in Malawi to finalise the adoption of a two-year-old boy. The pop star is expected to get a favourable ruling from the country's High Court on...]]></description></item><item><title>Fertilization and Embryology Debate</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/FertilityNews/fertilization-and-embryology-debate</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 15:19:25 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/FertilityNews/fertilization-and-embryology-debate</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Gordon Brown was accused last night of forcing through measures to liberalise embryo research as one of his most senior colleagues refused to support him in the Commons....]]></description></item><item><title>Adoptive Moms Breast-Feed Too</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/AdoptiveParenting/adoptive-moms-breast-feed-too</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 15:19:25 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/AdoptiveParenting/adoptive-moms-breast-feed-too</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[With pregnancy comes the inevitable question: Will you breast-feed? But hardly anyone thinks to ask that question of a woman who is adopting. Yet it's possible to induce lactation in order...]]></description></item><item><title>Group Ends IVF Isolation</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/FertilityNews/group-ends-ivf-isolation</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 15:19:25 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/FertilityNews/group-ends-ivf-isolation</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[When she was having in-vitro fertilisation, IVF, treatment in Auckland she didn’t know that another mum, Joanne Gribble, who lived just one street away, was also having the treatment....]]></description></item><item><title>Family United</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/family-united</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 15:19:25 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/family-united</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[On a frosty winter day in 1980, a petite, unmarried teenager with dark brown hair gave birth to a baby girl at St. John's Hospital. As she held her daughter for only an hour...]]></description></item><item><title>Baby Bonus Plasma-Proofed</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/DomesticAdoption/baby-bonus-plasma-proofed</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 15:19:25 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/DomesticAdoption/baby-bonus-plasma-proofed</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[From January next year, the benefit will be payed in fortnightly installments over six months, preventing new parents from blowing the lot on expensive electronic gadgetry....]]></description></item><item><title>115 Natural, Adopted and Foster Kids have been at Home at Vogels' House</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/DomesticAdoption/115-natural-adopted-and-foster-kids-have-been-at-home-at-vogels-house</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 15:19:01 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/DomesticAdoption/115-natural-adopted-and-foster-kids-have-been-at-home-at-vogels-house</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[In most parents' homes, a few pictures of their children hang in the hallway with pride. But having been foster parents to 104 children, having adopted six others and birthed five of their...]]></description></item><item><title>International Adoption</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/ChinaAdoption/international-adoption-13</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 15:19:01 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/ChinaAdoption/international-adoption-13</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Daughters are not always appreciated in china, where the government rule is one-child-per-family… so Renee and Jamie traveled to the other side of the world to bring Grace into their family....]]></description></item><item><title>Hunt on for More Foster Families</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/FosterParenting/hunt-on-for-more-foster-families</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 15:19:01 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/FosterParenting/hunt-on-for-more-foster-families</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Families across Wigan are being encouraged to foster a child - there is an estimated shortage of 10,000 carers across the UK, and the North West is the one of the worst-affected areas....]]></description></item><item><title>Local Woman Meets Mother For First Time</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/local-woman-meets-mother-for-first-time</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 15:12:44 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/local-woman-meets-mother-for-first-time</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Mother's Day 1998 had special meaning for a local woman, given up for adoption at birth. Local 12 was there for the emotional, tear-filled reunion between Missy West and...]]></description></item><item><title>Local Woman Stresses Need for Foster Carers</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/FosterParenting/local-woman-stresses-need-for-foster-carers</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 15:12:44 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/FosterParenting/local-woman-stresses-need-for-foster-carers</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[A Bandbridge woman who has been fostering children for 34 years is highlighting the need for more carers throughout the area. Ruth Maxwell is urging local people to go along to the...]]></description></item><item><title>Smoking Affects Fertility</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/FertilityNews/smoking-affects-fertility</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 15:12:44 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/FertilityNews/smoking-affects-fertility</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[A man will be considered at risk of being infertile if his sperm count is less than 20 million/ml of semen. This level is defined by the World Health Organisation but it is important to realise that some...]]></description></item><item><title>Fostering Children is Rewarding</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/FosterChildren/fostering-children-is-rewarding</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 15:05:37 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/FosterChildren/fostering-children-is-rewarding</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[May is National Foster Care Awareness month. In the latter part of last century, 340,00 children were in foster care in the United States. By the start of this century, that number rose by...]]></description></item><item><title>When I Saw Alan, it was Love at First Sight</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/RussiaAdoption/when-i-saw-alan-it-was-love-at-first-sight</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 15:05:37 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/RussiaAdoption/when-i-saw-alan-it-was-love-at-first-sight</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[For adoptive parents, the road to becoming a family is stressful, expensive and achingly long. In Ireland, it's considerably longer than other countries, with parents having...]]></description></item><item><title>Committed to Motherhood</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/BirthParenting/committed-to-motherhood</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 15:02:15 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/BirthParenting/committed-to-motherhood</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Danae Valle is ambitious, ready to do anything for her family, and chose to take on a challenging role of motherhood. Valle’s 9-year-old daughter, Katie, became a part of the family seven years...]]></description></item><item><title>A Chosen Family: Where Love, Longing and Need Meet</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/InternationalAdoption/a-chosen-family-where-love-longing-and-need-meet</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 15:02:15 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/InternationalAdoption/a-chosen-family-where-love-longing-and-need-meet</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Through the open window, the stench drifted inside. The smell, a mix of car exhaust and something unidentifiable, hung over the gray, colorless city like a cloak. A taxi pulled down the little lane....]]></description></item><item><title>Vietnam Police Arrest Two over Baby Trafficking to China</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/ChinaAdoption/vietnam-police-arrest-two-over-baby-trafficking-to-china</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 15:02:15 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/ChinaAdoption/vietnam-police-arrest-two-over-baby-trafficking-to-china</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Police in Vietnam have arrested two women for involvement in baby trafficking into China and rescued a 10-day-old boy, state media said on Monday. Hoang Thi Hien, 36, and Truong Thi Loat...]]></description></item><item><title>Couple Struggles to Become Parents</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/FertilityNews/couple-struggles-to-become-parents</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 14:57:46 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/FertilityNews/couple-struggles-to-become-parents</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[If things had gone as they planned, Amy and Dave Love would have a toddler running around the hardwood floors of their home. Maybe two. Amy can't wait to change diapers, wake up in the...]]></description></item><item><title>Fostering is 'The Best Job in the World'</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/FosterParenting/fostering-is-the-best-job-in-the-world</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 14:57:46 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/FosterParenting/fostering-is-the-best-job-in-the-world</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[When Janie Ashton and her husband Jeff discovered that they could not have children of their own, they still felt they had a lot to offer a child, especially one that had not had the best...]]></description></item><item><title>A Mother's Treasure</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/AdoptiveParenting/a-mothers-treasure</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 15:05:09 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/AdoptiveParenting/a-mothers-treasure</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Today is the day when children everywhere are expected to show gratitude to the mothers who raised them. But today is just one of many days during which Joyce Hanan will give thanks for...]]></description></item><item><title>Kutcher Considers Adoption</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/CelebrityAdoption/kutcher-considers-adoption</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 15:04:47 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/CelebrityAdoption/kutcher-considers-adoption</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Ashton Kutcher is contemplating adopting a child with his wife, actress Demi Moore. The 30-year-old is stepfather to Rumer, 19, Scout, 16, and Tallulah, 14 - Moore's...]]></description></item><item><title>Mom Devoted to Adopted, Foster Children</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/AdoptiveParenting/mom-devoted-to-adopted-foster-children</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 15:04:47 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/AdoptiveParenting/mom-devoted-to-adopted-foster-children</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Today will be filled with emotion for Beverly Owings. Mother's Day always is. For Owings, it's a delicate balance of celebrating the children in her home and respecting the bond that...]]></description></item><item><title>Heart Gallery Event Set to Raise Awareness for Older Child Adoption</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/DomesticAdoption/heart-gallery-event-set-to-raise-awareness-for-older-child-adoption</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 15:04:47 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/DomesticAdoption/heart-gallery-event-set-to-raise-awareness-for-older-child-adoption</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[City Councilor Kate Toomey sees something familiar in the eyes of the children looking back at her from the Heart Gallery, a photo exhibit at City Hall of older, adoptable children from...]]></description></item><item><title>Garfield County Recognizes Families that Help Bring Sunshine to Others</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/FosterParenting/garfield-county-recognizes-families-that-help-bring-sunshine-to-others</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 15:04:47 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/FosterParenting/garfield-county-recognizes-families-that-help-bring-sunshine-to-others</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[There are few foster care families in Garfield County. But for the few who take children into their homes, county officials wanted to show them their appreciation over the weekend during...]]></description></item><item><title>Being the Mother She Didn't Have to Be</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/DomesticAdoption/being-the-mother-she-didnt-have-to-be</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 15:04:47 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/DomesticAdoption/being-the-mother-she-didnt-have-to-be</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Technically, it was a choice. But for Linda Lansing, the possibility of losing two of her grandchildren to permanent foster care was no choice at all. She already had one grandchild, Miranda Lansing...]]></description></item><item><title>Setting the Record Straight on Adoption</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/DomesticAdoption/setting-the-record-straight-on-adoption</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 14:56:41 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/DomesticAdoption/setting-the-record-straight-on-adoption</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Child welfare administrators say many parents are afraid to adopt children from the state, in part because they have received erroneous information about public adoption. Here are the...]]></description></item><item><title>An Adoption Story with a Happy Ending</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/BirthParenting/an-adoption-story-with-a-happy-ending</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 14:56:41 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/BirthParenting/an-adoption-story-with-a-happy-ending</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Marian Pilkington had a daughter -- for five days, in 1966. Then she turned the infant over to a Chicago social worker for adoption. And baby Alison became Cindy, daughter of Fern and Don Cohen....]]></description></item><item><title>Hedgesville Family Celebrates Adoption Anniversary on Mother's Day</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/DomesticAdoption/hedgesville-family-celebrates-adoption-anniversary-on-mothers-day</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 14:56:41 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/DomesticAdoption/hedgesville-family-celebrates-adoption-anniversary-on-mothers-day</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Evan (Van) and Nina Ottey celebrated Mother’s Day in a special way. More than 50 people were invited to help them celebrate the one-year anniversary of their three daughters’ adoptions....]]></description></item><item><title>Adoptive Mom Awaits Reunion</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/AdoptiveParenting/adoptive-mom-awaits-reunion</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 14:56:41 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/AdoptiveParenting/adoptive-mom-awaits-reunion</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[She flipped through the photo album with Debora by her side. They looked at the dog, the cat, the big spacious home in Hamilton, Ohio, far away from Debora's home in Guatemala....]]></description></item><item><title>Americans Find it Harder to Adopt Abroad</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/DomesticAdoption/americans-find-it-harder-to-adopt-abroad</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 14:48:59 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/DomesticAdoption/americans-find-it-harder-to-adopt-abroad</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[As long as Lisa Belgrad can remember, she has wanted to be a mother. With each passing year, though, the chances grew dimmer, until the 41-year-old school social worker let go of the...]]></description></item><item><title>Saluting Mothers — Our Heroes</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/FosterParenting/-3397</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 14:48:59 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/FosterParenting/-3397</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[For their unconditional love, untiring dedication and altruism, mothers are society's heroes whose deeds are remembered long after they are gone. Mothers assume many roles in the course of their...]]></description></item><item><title>Adoption in DeWitt Reunites Four Siblings</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/adoption-in-dewitt-reunites-four-siblings</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 14:48:59 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/Search_Reunion/adoption-in-dewitt-reunites-four-siblings</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Lou “Boo” Cox grew up in a family of seven, so he thought he knew what it took to run a large household before he and his wife adopted four siblings. But the 6-foot-4, 225-pound former...]]></description></item><item><title>Mom by Choice</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/AdoptiveParenting/mom-by-choice</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 14:44:16 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/AdoptiveParenting/mom-by-choice</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[After adopting six children, ages 6 years to 15, Sissy Keck is grateful for the opportunity to love and help more children grow up. “It’s wonderful to see your kids reach their goals...]]></description></item><item><title>Modern Motherhood: Mom Took Unconventional Road</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/FosterParenting/modern-motherhood-mom-took-unconventional-road</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 14:44:16 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/FosterParenting/modern-motherhood-mom-took-unconventional-road</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[The Macefield household was abustle with activity Wednesday with the jostling and chatter of four children and the comings and goings of various pets. At the center of the whirl sat Kathy...]]></description></item><item><title>Moms Involved in Open Adoptions Feel Gratitude on Mother's Day</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/BirthParenting/moms-involved-in-open-adoptions-feel-gratitude-on-mothers-day</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 14:44:16 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/BirthParenting/moms-involved-in-open-adoptions-feel-gratitude-on-mothers-day</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[Cari Bowe’s eyes well up with tears when she thinks about Mother’s Day. It’s not some vain pride she feels at her dedication as a mother. And it’s not just feelings for...]]></description></item><item><title>Killer’s Child in Adoption Tussle</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/DomesticAdoption/-3391</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 14:40:09 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/DomesticAdoption/-3391</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[The four-year-old son of slain Pietermaritzburg mother Valencia Vather is at the centre of a legal tussle between her brother and her husband — the man convicted of murdering her....]]></description></item><item><title>Two-Year Wait to Adopt Salvadoran Girl is Soon to be over</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/InternationalAdoption/two-year-wait-to-adopt-salvadoran-girl-is-soon-to-be-over</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 14:40:09 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/InternationalAdoption/two-year-wait-to-adopt-salvadoran-girl-is-soon-to-be-over</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[This Mother's Day will be a little different as I prepare to make my final trip to El Salvador to bring home my legal daughter, Michel Antonia. 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"For my family, it was infertility issues," said Mansfield....]]></description></item><item><title>‘I Used to Mock Madonna and Angelina…’</title><link>http://news.adoption.com/news/CelebrityAdoption/-3390</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 14:35:25 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news.adoption.com/news/CelebrityAdoption/-3390</guid><author>AdoptionNews</author><description><![CDATA[While working on a story in Rio, my local guide is walking me back to my hotel. 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