NEW YORK -- Not long ago, the choices facing Robert and Julie Garrett would have been simpler. Once they set their hearts on adopting a child from China, the odds were high they could soon bring home a healthy infant girl. It's different now.
LILONGWE, Malawi (AP) - Madonna's efforts to adopt two youngsters from Malawi have put her in the media spotlight. But she isn't alone: a growing number of Americans are bringing home children from Africa as countries like China and Russia cut back on adoptions by foreigners. The increase - particularly in Ethiopia - comes as the AIDS epidemic ravaging the continent leaves more orphans in impoverished countries without relatives to care for them.
NEW YORK -- After tripling over the past 15 years, the number of foreign children adopted by Americans dropped sharply in 2006, the result of multiple factors which have jolted adoption advocates and prompted many would-be adoptive parents to reconsider their options. The consequences could be profound for the ever-growing numbers of Americans interested in adopting abroad. Already, some have had their hopes quashed by tightened eligibility rules in China; adoptions from Africa, where millions of children have been orphaned by AIDS and wars, could increase if those from China and Eastern Europe continue to decrease.
NEW YORK After tripling over the past 15 years, the number of foreign children adopted by Americans dropped sharply in 2006, the result of multiple factors which have jolted adoption advocates and prompted many would-be adoptive parents to reconsider their options. The consequences could be profound for the ever-growing numbers of Americans interested in adopting abroad. Already, some have had their hopes quashed by tightened eligibility rules in China. Adoptions from Africa, where millions of children have been orphaned by AIDS and wars, could increase if those from China and Eastern Europe continue to decrease.
Imagine this. A child brings home from school some material on diversity that includes an interracial couple. Or maybe a couple that has adopted a child from China or El Salvador. Interracial marriages are commonplace, as are overseas adoptions. The school is simply teaching what amounts to a fact of life.
LILONGWE, Malawi - Madonna's efforts to adopt two youngsters from Malawi have drawn the paparazzi. But she isn't alone: Westerners are increasingly seeking to bring home children from Africa as traditional sources such as China and Russia cut back on adoptions by foreigners.
Pictures of James and Xiaoli Carr's last trip to China spill from the sides of their family album, no matter how carefully you hold it. The spine wore out a long time ago.
..., their second together since their adoptions became final. As children adopted internationally ...
LILONGWE, Malawi -- Madonna's efforts to adopt two youngsters from Malawi have put her in the media spotlight. But she isn't alone: a growing number of Americans are bringing home children from Africa as countries like China and Russia cut back on adoptions by foreigners. The increase -- particularly in Ethiopia -- comes as the AIDS epidemic ravaging the continent leaves more orphans in impoverished countries without relatives to care for them.
When Christina Kozemchok's 2 1/2-year-old adopted daughter, Anna, found out she would be spending time with some Chinese exchange students this summer, she told her mother, "My Chinese friends are home now. Anna was adopted from China by the Kozemchok family when she was 10 months old through Adoptions from the Heart's Greensburg office.
(One rule the China Centre of Adoption Affairs issued in May is that couples may not be obese.) The flow from Guatemala halted altogether because the government failed to meet international standards designed to ensure legal, ethical adoptions. The Guatemalan government is reforming its system, but U.S. immigration officials won't process new cases until the country meets Hague Convention standards for adoption.
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