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Couples who keep adding to a large family are called gatherers. "These people have big hearts," says Debra Smith, director of the National Adoption Information Clearinghouse in Rockville, Maryland. "They think, 'One more plate on the table is not such a big deal. We have something to offer, and the...
Even as they denounced the violence, Bonn officials used the occasion to urge once more the adoption of a constitutional amendment that would curtail Germany's liberal provisions for asylum. Germany continues to bear the brunt of Europe's population upheaval, taking in 256,000 asylum seekers last year -- a...
Aronson denies that Allen was a father figure to Soon-Yi. "Andre Previn was her father," she says. "He supported her; he visited her; they saw him on vacations." She also disputes the image of Farrow as an Earth-Mother Teresa. Early this year, Aronson says, Mia journeyed to Vietnam...
Attending to this misery, thoughtful people feel sick. Then they pose questions -- not whethers but whys: why Allen stayed with Farrow through her adoption obsession; why Farrow remained allied with Allen after discovering the affair; why both are forcing or allowing their families, including their children, to shill for them...
Defining the ancient taboo becomes hard in an era of recombinant families created by divorce, remarriage and adoption. The traditional stricture -- no carnal relations between parent and child or brother and sister -- still holds, but how does it apply to today's blended and extended families, where blood ties are...