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...believe that the adoption fee motivates women to give up their children. “Money given to biological parents by adoptive parents rarely makes the difference in the choice whether or not to give up their child,” Bartholet said. Ortiz said that a dearth of social services in poor countries is a major factor contributing to the transnational adoption rate. She said that the number of transnational adoptions of Paraguayan children dropped from over 600 to 50 annually after Paraguay instituted initiatives to help poor mothers and began to monitor and restrict the adoptions. Bartholet cited...
That never sat right with Alvarado. A native Honduran, she graduated with degrees in primary school education and nursing, then traveled to the U.S. to earn her master's in nutrition at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. All this made her uniquely qualified to tackle the dearth of nutrition education in her home country--something she got a chance...
...present dearth of student space has forced student groups to take over Junior Common Rooms and other House spaces for meetings, Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd says, making dining even more important as space for unscheduled House socializing...
...Orleans, he attended Alabama's Tuskegee University on a baseball scholarship, earned an M.B.A. from Tulane University and worked his way up the ranks to vice president at cable giant Cox Communications by turning around its flagging New Orleans cable system. After hearing his son complain about New Orleans' dearth of career opportunities, Nagin entered the 2002 mayoral race only two months before the Democratic primary and ended up the choice of a city tired of its banana-republic image...
...damaging her chances for this December’s presidential election.Despite their various weaknesses, Epstein, Gadgil, Haddock, and Voith have emerged as the most likely candidates for this year’s presidential race. And though these four UC fixtures remain outwardly ambivalent about their intentions for running, a dearth of experienced potential candidates means that the field will be relatively limited this December no matter what. Enter the token outsider: Connor C. Wilson ’07, who won the Adams House representative election through a spirited write-in campaign two weeks ago. Wilson served as the campaign manager...