Word: adoptionism
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Most eleven-year-olds don't have a lawyer, but Tony is a special case. His adoptive parents decided five years after his adoption that Tony had not properly "bonded" with them, and returned him to the state in March. They kept Sam, Tony's natural younger brother. Patrick Murphy...
For untold thousands of abandoned or orphaned children, salvation lies in adoption or foster care. Among those who try to find families for these children is a most unlikely outfit: a J.C. Penney store. Last March in New Orleans, for the sixth year, the store made available an unorthodox forum...
Two events sent tensions rising again: the passage in 1988 of the U.S. omnibus trade bill, which provided an arsenal of retaliatory weapons; and adoption of the E.C.'s plan to create a single market by 1992, which Washington fears will entrench a Fortress Europe behind a Siegfried Line of...
Harriet McCullough, former executive director of the Chicago Board of Ethics, flew in from Chicago to lobby for the adoption of a CCA-sponsored code of ethics for the city government.
Almost overlooked amid all the goings-on in East Germany was the matter of those 6,500 canines who for years gave paws, as it were, to would-be border jumpers. Now most of the dogs are out of work, so West Germany's Animal Protection Society is taking 2...