Word: wife
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Terry Ulick, 34, and his wife Linda, 45, of Bartlett, Ill., were rebuffed by seven agencies in their six-year quest for a child. One agency said he was too fat and she was too old. "The biological rules of nature are that any two people can get together and have a child," says Terry. "When it comes to adoption, the rules of nature don't apply...
While 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...
...would have never gone back to East Germany,this was it," said Heinz Schmidt, a railway workerfrom Magdeburg who spent eight days in a tent withhis wife and teen...
According to his wife Helen, Mills "loved his work at Harvard. He didn't want to retire at 64, but he had to because of illness... He fought hard when he thought that what his men wanted was fair...
...couple that are frozen at an in-vitro fertilization clinic in Knoxville. Mary Sue Davis, 29, is unable to conceive by natural means and wants custody of her "pre-born children" for future implantation. Junior Davis, 31, claims he is being "raped of my reproductive rights" by his estranged wife and insists on having a joint say on the future of the embryos. "I do not want a child of mine in a single-parent situation," he argued...