Domestic Adoptions News for 05/17/2009



No end in sight « Holt baby
The domestic adoptions will continue to exceed international adoptions by a slim margin. However, the end to international adoption will remain only a topic of discussion because sources tell me that a back room quota system is in play, ...

Celebrity Adoptions and the Real World - Room for Debate Blog .
In placement decisions for domestic adoptions in the United States, race and ethnicity are still prominent. Obsession with the race of the prospective caregiver is understandable, given the painful history of blacks' oppression in this ...

Wild Horse Adoptions Up - KCPW

Wild Horse Adoptions Up
KCPW, UT
(KCPW News) The Bureau of Land Management's wild horse and burro adoptions nearly doubled this year over last year's disappointing numbers. BLM wild horse and burrow program director Gus Warr says Utah's economy is to thank for the nearly 62 percent .
Wild Horse and Burro Festival raring to go Deseret News
BLM official optimistic for Utah's horse adoptions Dallas Morning News
Wanted: Homes for old horses Salt Lake Tribune
KLAS-TV - Reno Gazette Journal
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Washington Times Examines Decline In Domestic Adoptions (source .
The Washington Times on Sunday examined why fewer unmarried women in the US are putting their infants up for adoption following unplanned pregnancies. (source: Medical News Today) - RSS widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com...

Adoption: how we afforded it | Owlhaven
In Canada, all domestic adoptions through the foster care system are fully funded - in fact we were paid to foster our children for the first few months. We were blessed with two children, aged 2 years and 9 months, full siblings who ...

Domestic Korean Adoptions Increase
More and more there seems to be growing support in Korea, for domestic adoptions. Korea has seen a dramatic increase of domestic adoptions, now a little over double the number of adoptions in the past 10 years. The Korean government has ...

A look at adoptions to the United States - San Francisco Chronicle

A look at adoptions to the United States
San Francisco Chronicle,  USA
By AP In the 2008 fiscal year, 17438 children in foreign countries were adopted by US citizens and taken to the United States. Here are the figures for some individual countries that year: You Dirty Kids! You! With your filthy "sexting" and alarming .
Costs for keeping a chimp San Francisco Chronicle
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She was born in China with a rare eye disease, but she'll grow up . - Gadsden Times (subscription)

She was born in China with a rare eye disease, but she'll grow up .
Gadsden Times (subscription), AL
The adoption agency representing the Strawns had interviewed them about what types of special needs they would be willing to consider. "I felt a lot of pressure," Jennifer admitted. Then the couple attended a conference on international adoptions. .
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Union of Catholic Asian News » News Archive » Church domestic .
SEOUL (UCAN) -- More foreigners than Koreans adopted babies from the country when the Holy Family Child Adoption Center, the first to focus exclusively on domestic adoptions, began its work 20 years ago. ...

Why Americans Are Adopting Fewer Kids from China - China Digital Times

Why Americans Are Adopting Fewer Kids from China
China Digital Times, CA
The stricter guidelines, intended to limit the overwhelming number of applicants to China's well-regarded adoption program, have been effective EUR” adoptions of Chinese children by US citizens have dropped 50%, according to the US State Department. .
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Korean intercountry adoptees support birth mother's rights in .
In 2008, the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Family announced that domestic adoptions had surpassed international adoptions for the first time with 1288 domestic adoptions and 1264 international adoptions. According to the Truth and ...

Adoption Attorney Illinois -- Finding the Right Representation
Private adoptions are almost always also domestic adoptions. Most all of the newborns adopted in the US are done so via private adoptions. If you go for public or international adoptions, you may not be able to get a newborn. ...

International vs. Domestic AdoptionEURŠ
Soronen believes that misconceptions about the well-being of the children, and the time and cost involved in domestic adoptions, may lead prospective parents to look overseas first. Promoting domestic children.. this part sounds more ...

Talks begin on new deal with Vietnam over adoption laws - Times Online

Talks begin on new deal with Vietnam over adoption laws
Times Online, UK
The Irish government will ask Vietnam to re-open international adoptions on an interim basis after coming under intense pressure from prospective adoptive parents. About 275 Irish couples who have been approved to adopt from Vietnam have been EURœleft in .
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Washington Times Examines Decline In Domestic Adoptions
The Washington Times on Sunday examined why fewer unmarried women in the US are putting their infants up for adoption following unplanned pregnancies...

Judge finalizes 12 adoptions in court - News14.com

News14.com
Judge finalizes 12 adoptions in court
News14.com, NC
CHARLOTTE EUR Chief District Court Judge Lisa Bell was on hand Friday as 12 adoptions were finalized. Since National Adoption Day is in November, the first ever spring ceremony allowed new parents who file between December and August to have their .
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Adoption charity apologises for use of word 'retarded' - guardian.co.uk

The Christian Institute
Adoption charity apologises for use of word 'retarded'
guardian.co.uk, UK
The UK's leading adoption charity has been forced to apologise for using the word "retarded" in its guide to adoption for gay couples. The Pink Guide to Adoption for Lesbians and Gay Men, brought out by the British Association for Adoption and .
Adoption charity removes 'retarded homophobes' slur Telegraph.co.uk
Slurred by the adoption Nazis: Critics of gay parenting are . Daily Mail
How to screw up adoptions Daily Mail - Charleston
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Pet of the week - MiamiHerald.com

Pet of the week
MiamiHerald.com, FL
People older than 60 may qualify to have part of the adoption fee waived. Adoption hours are 10 am to 6:30 pm Monday through Saturday and 10 am to 5:30 pm Sunday. Call 954-989-3977, press 3 for adoptions, or visit the Broward Humane Society website at .
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Gay adoption must be recognized in Florida, thanks to two . - Examiner.com

Advocate.com
Gay adoption must be recognized in Florida, thanks to two .
Examiner.com
The state appeals court in Florida has ruled that adoptions by same-sex couples in other states must be recognized. This is a blow to the state's ban on gay adoption. The ruling comes in the case of two mothers from Washington State, Kimberly Ryan and .
Fla. Must Recognize Gay Adoptions, Court Rules Courthouse News Service
EDITORIAL: Adopting the right attitude Palm Beach Post
Florida Court of Appeals holds that Florida must honor second . Proud Parenting
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Adoption: Ideology and Reality - New York Times

New York Times
Adoption: Ideology and Reality
New York Times, United States
In our discussion about international adoptions, we received numerous comments from readers who shared their stories on the choices they made and the difficulties they've encountered. Below are excerpts of their comments. I am a Korean-American adoptee .
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