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CBS News helped pay for a Wisconsin family's trip to Samoa and an emotional meeting that was a key moment in Saturday's "48 Hours" special on an adoption scam involving children taken from their South Pacific homes under false pretenses.
ST. ALBANS — A Vermont adoption agency is turning to the Web to complete an out-of-state adoption. ...
ST. ALBANS (AP) — A Vermont adoption agency is turning to the Web to complete an out-of-state adoption. ... - Times Argus Staff
A Vermont adoption agency is turning to the Web to complete an out-of-state adoption. The Lund Family Center will use Skype computer software, which will allow the out-of-state family and child to participate in the legal proceeding through a Web cam.
46-year-old Vonda Ferguson of Springfield was sentenced today to 65 years in prison for beatings, abuse and mental torture inflicted against her five adopted children.
SPRINGFIELD (AP) - A southwest Ohio woman has been sentenced to 65 years in prison for abusing her five adopted children.Vonda Ferguson was sentenced Monday in Clark County Common Pleas Court in Springfield on 20 counts of child endangering, two counts of...
The woman who tried to commit suicide after her verdict was read has been given 65 years behind bars for beating and abusing her children.
A record crowd of over 550 adoptive family members and well wishers crowded the OnCenter ballroom as Onondaga County celebrated its 10th National Adoption Day on Nov. 20.
Siblings are reunited after being separated through multiple adoptions.
PORTLAND, Maine (NEWS CENTER) - The woman charged with trying to sell her baby to a number of adoptive parents is scheduled to go on trial today.
A legislative task force is reviewing whether adoptive parents of abused and neglected children need more assistance, information or even a way out of the adoption.
The scrapbook pages show a smiling 8-year-old boy on his first day of school, opening Christmas gifts and hanging around with new friends.
Josh Swain and his wife wanted to be adoptive parents.
After spending 13 years as a foster mother, Frances Lewis found one she just had to keep and could not give up. She is pictured with her newly adopted daughter, Carita, who is five years old.
Even in third grade, Susan Devan Harness knew she didn't belong in the white world. She already was being called "squaw girl" by classmates. Harness drew suspicious stares and was followed by employees every time she entered a store in the Montana town where she was raised. But it wasn't until she was 14 that she realized how estranged she was from the dominant culture she had been pushed into ...
Of the hundreds of teenage girls going through unplanned pregnancies that Karen Pringle deals with in her job, few — maybe 1 percent — tell her they plan to put their babies up for adoption.