Child adoptions worldwide
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Adoptions are increasingly in the headlines around the world. Some Hollywood celebrities have been in the news recently for adopting children abroad, and there has been a renewed interest in the plight of orphaned children. What is the annual number of child adoptions worldwide?
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Asian children in care are waiting three times as long as white children to be adopted, a charity says.
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Mother India gives birth to 43 million children a year. Biotech companies on the verge of the world's largest stem-cell bonanza may create a market that would tempt poor families. By Scott Carney.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 19 -- Mothers deciding to place their infants for adoption deserve better counseling, more time to change their minds, and more support in trying to keep track of the children they relinquish, a leading adoption institute recommends in a sweeping new report.
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Â· 200 British suspects among 700 worldwide Â· 31 children rescued from abuse
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The United Nations children&#39;s fund says that more than half the world&#39;s children are suffering the effects of poverty, war and HIV/AIDS, denying them a healthy and safe childhood.
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PARIS, Jan 20 (IPS) - Parents across Europe are being warned against  adopting children orphaned by the Indian Ocean tsunami.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka has banned the adoption of children orphaned by a deadly tsunami until further notice after receiving unconfirmed reports that some children were snatched in the wake of the disaster, government officials said yesterday.
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Life & style:  Kate Hilpern investigates a dramatic rise in the number of newborns up for adoption
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MOSCOW -- Thousands of Russian children are adopted by foreigners every year -- but few go to such high-profile homes as the leader of Germany.
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Blog: Recent events underscore how many companies want to help bring computing to the world's children--so long as they can make money.
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LONDON, Nov 17 (IPS) - Hundreds of thousands of child soldiers are being   used in conflicts around the world and governments are doing  little to  stop this, says a report published Wednesday.
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Across the United States, a growing number of children are living in shelters or group homes.
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From Monday, people all over the world  can become virtual neighbors to the residents of a Sierra Leone  slum, plagued by infant mortality and rampant disease, through  an Internet campaign by the charity Save the Children.
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LONDON - Police smashed a global Internet pedophile ring, rescuing 31 children and rounding up more than 700 suspects worldwide, authorities said Monday.  Some 200 suspects are based in Britain, the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Center said.
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VIENNA, Austria Austrian authorities said Wednesday they have uncovered a major international child pornography ring involving more than 2,360 suspects from 77 countries, including hundreds in the United ...Comment
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It is difficult to find anything positive about war, but the pictures in the news of children and their military fathers loving each other have been heart-rending. They remind us that there is nothing on Earth more precious and sacred than the love between fathers and their children.