Disaster Raises Interest in Adoption
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Families in the United States are asking about adopting children from areas devastated by the tsunami, but adoption officials say it's too early to consider bringing orphaned children into the country.
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Having overcome great obstacles to adopt an Iraqi orphan with cerebral palsy, Scott Southworth is spearheading an effort to find families to care for another 21 disabled children from that unhappy land.
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The number of parents saying children have been unjustly taken for adoption is on the rise, campaigners claim.
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The human impact of the tsunami disaster in sound and pictures.
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Some Northland charities and churches are asking for donations to help the victims of southern Asia&#39;s tsunami disaster, and more may do so.
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Events of the day entangled many of us in an emotional lost and found.
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Kathleen Tierney, a disaster researcher, says that catastrophes change the way people experience time.
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Adoptive parents invest more time and financial resources in their children than biological parents, according to a new national study challenging arguments that have been used to oppose same-sex marriage and gay adoption.
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For more than 18 fruitless months, Regina and Dennis Joyner searched for an Asian woman willing to donate her eggs. They were on the waiting list at two Washington area fertility clinics. They placed an online classified ad, but the most promising response came from Africa. Finally, they gave up.
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December 31, 2004 -- Australian Jillian Searle had to choose between her two children when she was caught in a tsunami at a Thai resort.
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A TWO-YEAR-OLD boy who was rescued from a crushed car suffers intense fear and asks about his mother who was buried today, a week after a major earthquake struck Japan, doctors said.
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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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The last time Amiruddin saw his shy 7-year-old daughter was three weeks ago when the tsunami snatched her away. In the chaos of flash floods, as the family scrambled toward the roof of their home, a utility pole fell, separating Putri from her mother. "We went to the roof and I couldn't find her," said the mother, Hernini. Like her husband and many others here, she has one name.
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There is a tremendous outpouring of support from the public for victims of this disaster. One way to help the people of the Asian countries involved is to visit their embassy websites, where they have information
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The youngest victims of the Asian  tsunami may be homeless, traumatized and possibly orphaned, but  they are not yet candidates for U.S. adoption, the State  Department said on Wednesday.
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The youngest victims of the Asian  tsunami may be homeless, traumatized and possibly orphaned, but  they are not yet candidates for adoption in the United States,  the State Department said on Wednesday.
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Well said...   "These powerful and well-funded political Christian fundamentalist organizations appear to be suffering from a compassion deficit. Organizations which are amazingly quick to organize to fight against same-sex marriage, a woman's right to choose, and embryonic stem cell research are missing in action when it comes to responding to the disaster in southern Asia. None of their web sites are actively soliciting aid for the victims of the earthquake/tsunami."  "In fact, there is no mention of the giant earthquake and tsunami that devastated southern Asia. There are no headlines about the dead, injured or the tremendous damage; there are no urgent appeals for donations; there are  ...