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...write. Little Vanya's only good luck is his looks; he's simply adorable in his silent watchful way, and a prime candidate for adoption. There's big money to be made in the international traffic in abandoned children, and when an Italian couple singles the 6-year-old boy out, everyone in the orphanage envies his good fortune...
...safe where his records are stored, discovers her whereabouts and enters upon an odyssey of discovery that is dangerous - he is, after all, only 6 - yet touched by occasional grace notes. He is pursued by the adoption agent and her very tough bodyguard (if they don't deliver the boy they will not receive their fee) and in his travels he encounters people who wish to steal his money (and even his clothes), though he also runs into a few who help him along as best they can, in small ways...
...child genre. It has, instead, the look and the feel of a documentary. There is something objective, almost reportorial, in the way it presents its story. It does not sue us for our favor. And it does not cue our responses. It trusts us take this almost silent little boy to heart at our own pace, in our own good time. The result is a movie that does not leave us awash in tears, but one that encourages us to think about what a close-run race the "Pursuit of Happyness" (oh, sorry, happiness) is, how often, the runner flirts...
...months after his divorce in 2000, Davis, 36, a software engineer in Denver, took a DNA test to confirm a nagging suspicion that he was not the biological father of his 6-year-old twins. The negative test results led him to give up partial custody of the boy and girl--"The anger grows and grows, and it just keeps chipping away at your love for those children," he says--and since his ex-wife moved to another state, he has had no contact with the twins. But under Colorado law, he is still required to pay $663 a month...
...lending laws. They point to many an egregious case in which the law's marital presumption of fatherhood has ended up enslaving a divorced dad, like the Michigan man who proved he had not sired his son but was still ordered to send child-support payments directly to the boy's biological father, who was granted custody after the mom moved out of his place and left the kid there. Increasingly, policymakers across the country are turning a sympathetic ear to such complaints. Florida last year joined Georgia and Ohio in allowing a man to walk away from any financial...