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What's different about Hope Meadows is that it is not just multigenerational but multiracial as well. Previously part of the Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul, Ill., 125 miles south of Chicago, this three-block array of ranch houses has been transformed into the home of a pioneering program...
Since Hope's launch in 1994, 45 difficult-to-place kids have been adopted; six are expected to be; 19 have returned to a family member; and just seven have returned to state care. Hope's adoption rate from 1994 to '99 was more than three times the average rate...
Desperately missing her natural parents, Malika hardly considered her forced adoption a dream come true. But that confinement paled next to the one that was to last more than 20 years and that began suddenly one afternoon in August 1972. A few years earlier, she had been allowed to return...
BOOK Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography by Peter J. Conn "I read The Good Earth, like everybody else did, probably in high school, but there are a lot of things about her that I didn't know. For instance, she started Welcome House, which was one of the first...
Dwight Fee: This is my hunch: This is a pretty conservative time for gay and lesbian life, with lots of exceptions. I had my students read an article by Jeffrey Weeks, talking about how a lot of straight couples are breaking up and having a hard time keeping it together...