Word: processers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those eligible. As the summit closed, White House chief of staff John Sununu noted that "the Governors succeeded quite well in convincing the President of the value of preschool and early-childhood programs." Bush conceded "the need for more federal support for the prekindergarten education process...
...towels in front of a woman giving up her child, or even blindfolded her, so she could not see the baby. In the nursery the infants were marked DNS (do not show) or DNP (do not publish the mother's name). Says Rappaport: "Adoption was considered a really sick process...
...South Korea cuts back, other countries awash with orphans or abandoned children try to remove potential obstacles. Thailand, India and Peru are possible sources. Douglas Tifft and his wife Bonnie MacAdam tried the agencies, avoided the lawyers and waited a year for a Korean baby before looking elsewhere. "The process can be heartbreaking," says Bonnie. But when they applied for a Peruvian baby, the phone call came six weeks later, and they soon boarded a plane for Lima. Last week Bonnie returned to New Hampshire with five-month-old Rosa. "Once you have the baby in your arms," she says...
...healthy white baby," says family lawyer Samuel Totaro of Trevose, Pa. "This business can be a license to steal." William Pierce, president of the National Committee for Adoption and a militant defender of traditional adoption practices, argues that abuses have multiplied as formal agencies have lost control of the process. "One couple I know adopted twins through a lawyer," says Pierce. "After several weeks, the couple found that the twins were deaf. They had paid the lawyer $25,000. Did they sue? No. By the time they found out, they had become too fond of the twins to jeopardize their...
...Evanses, Nicole and their new daughter Rebecca are just beginning to work out some answers -- a process that is not without pain. Nicole admits she felt "a tearing away" when the Evanses went home from the hospital with the baby; she paid her first visit the very next day. "It's been hard for us to hear the true sadness in Nicole's voice," admits Jan, "when we have felt so much joy." More than once Nicole has had to battle the urge to pick up Rebecca and run, particularly when Jan went out shopping and left them alone together...