Adoptions and Orphans

When making the decision to adopt an infant an adopting couple will come across a number of agencies willing to help them in their cause. Some adoption agencies deal only with International adoption, others only domestic and there are those that will work with all forms of adoption. Choosing the correct adoption agency for your [...]

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Although the decision to give up a child is always heart-wrenching, it can be a "win-win" solution to two painful problems. Adoption is a legal process that gives adoptive parents rights and aresponsibilities and the adoptive child social, legal and emotional rights as a family member.
Putting a child up for adoption allows the child?s birth [...]

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By Jen Christensen
Posted: Sunday, November 04, 2007 at 8:22 p.m.
 
Celebrities like Angelina Jolie and Madonna have highlighted the need for adopting children overseas, but they’re also making it look easy and somewhat glamorous. Many adoptions do end wonderfully, but the journey can be challenging.
Here’s what couples really go through when they are called to adopt.
Jami [...]

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By Jeff Gammage
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
> Rosanne Cowen was at work in her Moorestown office when an e-mail arrived from her adoption agency, bearing the subject line "Baby Girl."
> Her hands shook as she opened the message: She and her husband had a new daughter - Maria Jose, a newborn living with a foster family in [...]

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In the early hours of Dec 26th 2004 the Western world awoke to the unfolding horror that we came to know as the Asian Tsunami. Those of us still recovering from obscenely large amounts of food and drink from the previous day sat transfixed as we watched a horror story of biblical proportions unfold before [...]

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