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SOMETIME this week, President Bush will be formally presented with the Congress-approved Family and Medical Leave Act. The President has already declared that he will veto this bill, which provides employees of large companies an assurance of three months of unpaid leave for childbirth, adoption or serious illness.
More than Arab pressure, however, may be riling Gorbachev. Seventy percent of the work force of the departing Jews are professionals and technicians. "The brain-drain issue is really worrying the Soviet legislature," says a U.S. diplomat based in Moscow. Perhaps for that reason, the Soviet parliament last week postponed...
If adoptive parents are saddled with an unforeseen defect, who should shoulder the load? Most experts put the onus on the adoptive parents. "Families, having decided to do an adoption, assume a certain risk," says Professor William Winslade of the University of Texas Medical School in Galveston. "If it is...
Some disappointed parents have begun to fight back in the courts. The notion of "wrongful adoption" -- which claims that agencies are liable for damages if they place children without fully disclosing their health backgrounds -- is gaining legal recognition. Frank and Jayne Gibbs of Philadelphia are suing two agencies for $6...
Many states have passed medical disclosure laws, which make it easier to obtain accurateinformation about a child. Agencies themselves are attempting to gather more data. The Golden Cradle adoption agency, in Cherry Hill, N.J., requires natural mothers to fill out ten-page medical histories that ask about everything from hay...