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Steven Kirsh, a past president of the American Association of Adoption Attorneys who has placed seven biracial babies in homes overseas in the past four years, calculates that there are 80 U.S. families waiting for every available white infant, five for every biracial baby, less than one for every black infant. "It's difficult to find homes in this country for mixed-race infants," he says, "and especially difficult for black infants." His claim is echoed by adoption experts from Atlanta to Beverly Hills, who contend that the number of white couples adopting black children has shriveled since 1972, when...
...hang of breast-feeding. His mother Kimberly, 38, a medical technician, tried to nurse him. "He would bob his head, root and try to latch on, but he wasn't getting anywhere," she recalls. "Everybody kept saying, 'Don't worry. Don't worry."' It was bad advice. When the infant was 12 days old, his parents rushed him to Children's Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio. His breathing was shallow; his eyes had rolled back. "I was frantic because I could see he was withering," she recalls. Doctors found the child's weight had slipped below 5 lbs. Their diagnosis: severe...
...years later, a Children's Defense Fund study found that in East Carroll Parish, where Lake Providence is located, 70.1% of children younger than 18, or 2,409, were living in poverty, the highest rate in the nation -- and this amid staggeringly high rates of infant mortality, teenage pregnancy and drug...
...cherubic little boy in the uniform of a Soviet naval cadet, grinning as he stands nestled between his father and mother. But Kim Jong Il's childhood was hardly a settled one. He was only seven when he lost his mother. She died in labor, delivering a stillborn infant just a year after her husband was anointed leader of North Korea by Stalin's regime. The Korean War then engulfed the peninsula, and Kim Jong Il spent its duration in northeast China. Back home, he transferred from school to school before graduating from Kim Il Sung University in Pyongyang...
Ensconced in the hospital's cardiothoracic intensive-care unit, the infant recovered quickly from the 5 1/2-hour operation that separated her from her twin. One week later doctors removed the breathing tube that connected her to a respirator. But since her lungs were still weak from surgery and congenital problems, they placed her in a negative-pressure ventilator. The cylindrical device works like an iron lung, enclosing the body from the neck down in a vacuum, so that air flows through the nose and mouth and into the lungs without the effort of inhalation. Over the next months, Angela...