Word: adoptionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Color me Catholic. I am for better birth control methods that are readily available to any who want them, help with adoption procedures and teaching respect for all life.
Now, after a year of discussion and hearings, the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which represents the governments of the 24 most highly developed non-Communist nations, has drawn up a code of ethics intended to guide the multinationals in the conduct of their far-flung enterprises...
The result is chaos, as the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service and local U.S. courts try to determine whether specific Vietnamese children are legally eligible for adoption by the Americans who have taken them in. So far, the service has declared 1,671 children eligible, based either on signed releases...
The New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights, meanwhile, has filed a class-action suit on behalf of all the children who may not in fact be orphans, including those who have been ruled eligible for adoption. The center, challenging the validity of the service's decisions, is asking...
Very Bad. Ha Thi Vo, a Vietnamese mother who gave up three sons during the babylift, is now living in California, where she is fighting to regain them. She found her youngest child, Tung, 3, at an adoption agency. But since he did not immediately recognize her, agency officials said...