"Baby hatch" highlights Japan fears over adoption
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When a newborn baby girl was left in Japan's controversial "baby hatch" last week, the child's life may have been saved, but her chances of finding new parents were slim due to a cultural aversion to adoption in Japan.
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More than 100,000 children who have been abused or neglected by their biological parents are languishing in foster care, waiting to be adopted. The explanations are practically universal, with nearly every state facing the same problems in running its child welfare agency, a report finds.
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Japan tunes in to witness creature's birth.
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After referring to women as "baby-making machines", Japan's health minister could be going out with the bathwater
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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 fear is that (scientists) are trying to breed a human with some other creature"  British authorities decided Wednesday to permit research that uses animal eggs to create human stem cells - studies experts say are critical to unlocking treatments for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other ... via The South Mississippi Sun Herald
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden  - Adoption hotlines around the  world have been jammed with callers since the Asian tsunami on  Dec. 26 orphaned thousands of children, but experts and aid  agencies are telling would-be parents they may be disappointed.
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The event educated families on the adoption process. More than 100- thousand children in the US are waiting to be adopted. Kathy Searle/ Utah Director of Adoption Exchange: &quot;We want to give hope to children
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Japan has been appealing for international help to secure the release of a Japanese man kidnapped by Islamic militants in Iraq and threatened with death.
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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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More families are adopting older kids. But taking in an adolescent can create a new set of challenges for the parents and the child
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The number of Japanese homeless is on the rise, and cultural attitudes about age are exacerbating the situation.
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More than 10 percent of Japanese  teenagers who were screened for a sexual disease that can cause  infertility tested positive, a newspaper reported, adding to  concerns about increasing sexual activity among Japan's youth.
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The birth of a male heir ends for now the debate over whether women should be allowed to ascend JapanÂs throne.
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British couples desperate for a baby are travelling abroad for fertility treatment because of a shortage of egg donors in the UK.
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Japanâs nationalists are fanning fury over abductions decades ago by North Korea, still a burning issue.
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TOKYO &#151; The birth of the first male heir to the Chrysanthemum Throne in four decades does not resolve the imperial family's looming succession crisis, Japan's palace chief said through a spokesman Wednesday.