Word: parental
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some attorneys act as intermediaries between doctors with pregnant patients ; and prospective parents. They may also advise clients on how and where to advertise for potential birth mothers. Pictures of perplexed young women appear in ads on buses and in buildings throughout Illinois. Sample copy: "Pregnant? Scared? Are you ready to be a single parent?" For those who are not, the ad refers clients to lawyer Lawrence Raphael ("He Cares") and even provides a toll-free number...
...personal research in 1979 when she and her husband Ernest adopted Seth, an infant from Chile, then Eve from South Korea in 1981. "We wanted this week's story to convey how much the dynamics of adoption are changing," Gilman says. "Our whole notion of who can be a parent and who can be adopted is dramatically different...
...even when adoptive parents come forward, the foster-care and adoptive system can keep the children tantalizingly out of reach. Designed to be a short-term arrangement ending in either adoption or the child's return to a competent parent, foster care has become a kind of indeterminate sentence. Only about half of all foster children return home; many of the rest are suspended in a legal limbo by parents who make little effort to regain their children but refuse to relinquish them fully. Although federal law mandates that a child whose mother shows no inclination to plan...
...partial remedy is being tried in New York City. The city's new adoption- counseling unit works with drug-addicted birth mothers at the hospital to explain the possibility of giving up parental rights and freeing their children for quick adoption. Earlier this year the city instituted a plan encouraging would-be adoptive parents to serve as foster parents for children who haven't yet been freed for adoption, and then adopt them as soon as legally possible. "Parents don't have to go to Korea or South America if they ! want to adopt an infant," says adoption-services director...
...according to TIME interviews with dozens of executives and consultants involved in such takeovers. Many, if not most, foreign buyers are so far failing to meet the glowing expectations they set for their U.S. acquisitions. In many cases, struggling U.S. subsidiaries are being kept alive by financial transfusions from parent companies overseas...