Article: KIDS SEEKING NEW PARENTS ORPHANS: SIX CHILDREN FROM COLOMBIA HOPE FOR A SUMMER MIRACLE.(News)

Article: Adoptive parents' investment greater
Charleston Gazette;  February 13, 2007 ;     612 words ...NEW YORK - Adoptive parents invest more time and financial...problems. "One of the reasons adoptive parents invest more is that they really...telephone interview Monday. "Adoptive parents face a culture where, to many...

Article: To tell or not to tell: Factors affecting adoptees' telling their adoptive parents about their search
Child Welfare;  January 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......adoptees who told or did not tell their adoptive parents about their search for their biological...discussion, were related to telling both adoptive parents. These findings lend support to the...used to describe the ways in which adoptive parents inform their children that they are...

Article: Adoptive Parents Urged To End Fight Over Boy
Chicago Sun-Times;  June 24, 1994 ;     389 words ...The adoptive parents of "Baby Richard" should drop plans...documents, be given to him. The boy's adoptive parents are asking the court to reconsider the order. "I was hoping the adoptive parents would see the handwriting on the wall...

Article: A difficult time for adoptive parents
Chicago Sun-Times;  May 12, 1991 ;     333 words ......if they're attached enough to their adoptive parents, I don't think it matters." Guy "knows...re my mother, my real mother.' " "Adoptive parents often feel threatened by a child's...resentment or annoyance that (her adoptive parents) were never warned that this would...

Article: ADOPTIVE PARENTS LOSE CHILD.(MAIN)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  May 1, 1995 ;     347 words ......taken sobbing and whimpering from his adoptive parents Sunday by the mother who had given...records only as Baby Richard, from the adoptive parents' home in suburban Chicago. The boy...Kirchners, who met with the boy and his adoptive parents for about an hour before taking him...

Article: `Baby Richard' Rally Backs Adoptive Parents
Chicago Sun-Times;  July 9, 1994 ;     336 words ......the 3-year-old boy with his adoptive parents. "Baby Richard has a home," Theresa Bernal, a friend of the adoptive parents, told the crowd. On June 16...1991, and has been with his adoptive parents since he was 4 days old. The...

Article: Budget 2001: Adoption - Maternity pay and leave rights are extended to cover adoptive parents
The Independent - London;  March 8, 2001 ;     406 words ......birth parents. The Chancellor said adoptive parents should be able to take the same time...paid leave for fathers. Until now, adoptive parents have only been entitled to 13 weeks...overwhelming support to including adoptive parents. About 2,000 children are adopted...

Article: Study: Adoptive Parents Get High Marks
AP Online;  February 12, 2007 ;     667 words ...NEW YORK - Adoptive parents invest more time and financial...problems. "One of the reasons adoptive parents invest more is that they really...telephone interview Monday. "Adoptive parents face a culture where, to many...

Article: Adoptive parents do more, study says: Research suggests they invest more time and money in their children.
Tulsa World (Tulsa, OK);  February 26, 2007 ;     700+ words ......national study suggests it might. Adoptive parents invest more time and money in their...included in the study. The study found adoptive parents spend more time with their children...partly be explained by the fact that adoptive parents are usually older, richer, and better...

Article: Father Gets Custody; Adoptive Parents Must Pay
Yakima Herald-Republic;  February 9, 2000 ;     614 words ......Wash. (AP) - A 16-year-old girl's adoptive parents have been ordered to give up custody...paternal aunt. Tollefson ruled that the adoptive parents were fit to raise the girl, but he...pay child support, and because the adoptive parents still are the girl's legal parents...

Article: `Baby Richard' Measure Signed // Legal Status Bolstered For Adoptive Parents
Chicago Sun-Times;  July 4, 1994 ;     443 words ......enacted bill Sunday that may enable the adoptive parents of 3-year-old "Baby Richard" to keep...Baby Richard, who has lived with his adoptive parents since he was 4 days old, must be returned...more promising legal avenue to the adoptive parents. Even if the adoption remains ...

Article: ADOPTIVE PARENTS' CHALLENGES ARE MANY
The Boston Globe;  March 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ......She took issue with my omission of adoptive parents from the discussion. It was a good...pregnancy lasts for nine months. For adoptive parents, the process of having a baby can...after nine months. Birth parents and adoptive parents worry about the baby's health. They...

Article: Recruiting Mexican American adoptive parents
Child Welfare;  September 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......recruiting prospective Mexican American adoptive parents. Approximately one-third of the sample...recruitment of Mexican American prospective adoptive parents. Increased attention is being given...and recruiting minority prospective adoptive parents, particularly in light of the ...

Article: DSS renews campaign to locate adoptive parents for minorities
The Boston Globe;  November 17, 1993 ;     539 words ......attention to what it called a lack of adoptive parents for the 4,500 children now in foster...imbalance even as they pushed for more adoptive parents for all foster children. Joined by...audience of about 30 people, including adoptive parents, adults who were adopted as children...