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Iowa KidsNet, the statewide organization that recruits, trains, licenses and supports Iowa’s foster and adoptive families, will hold an informational session in Denison on December 9 for individuals interested in becoming foster or adoptive parents.
The rail ruckus is making all the headlines right now in Tallahassee. But below the radar, your state reps have been busy filing a slew of bills for the spring session — about everything from gay adoption and term limits to both the designs and the costs of getting new license plates.
Two Maryville couples tell of the roads that led them to adoption
To find parents for Kendrick, 13, and his brother Jerrel, 12, Washoe County Social Services is featuring the youngsters on its "Open Arms" adoption show on cable television and on the county's Web site.
Mass adoption ceremony unites new families
Before adoption entered into the picture for the Joe and Laura Knaapen family, the couple had opened their home to children in need of foster care. But they never considered adopting one of them.
SCSU basketball player Nate Phillips stayed home for two years to help family with adopted kids;
Remember when Church Street Station used to be all about quick-sketched giant-head caricatures, nickel beers, copped feels, penny-crushing machines and bused-in British tourists?
It took a long time for the comic absurdities to come full circle and a happy, or at least ironically satisfying, ending to be arrived at in the Carpenter Square Theatre production of "Tom, Dick and Harry.” The farce’s pace often seemed forced and the humor inappropriate, although the audience, perhaps mercifully, wasn’t given much time to think about it.Fortunately, the performances were much ...
Eugene and Laura try to teach their adopted children that home is where you live. The lesson has been a little harder this year after a fire badly damaged the family’s home in September, sending them to a hotel for months. “No one was hurt and...
Every year thousands of parents in the United States adopt babies from China. In the last five years more than 30 thousand children have been taken in by American parents. Now a series of newspaper reports suggests that some of those children were actually stolen from their birthparents in China.
BATON ROUGE — After becoming certified adoptive parents, Sonja and Keith Patton of Baker waited almost a year to receive their first child.
Full of hand-drawn color illustrations, "Catiana Makes a Family" , the new children's book written and illustrated by Mary Lotorto-Soroka, details the poignant true story of her own daughter's adoption.
PONTE VEDRA, Fla.-- A Ponte Vedra woman whose adoption agency was shut down twice is now accused of abusing her own 11 adopted kids.
AJPanda.com launches to help families who have adopted children from China celebrate Chinese culture. They offer authentic Chinese apparel, home décor, jewelry, and toys plus offer an extensive resource guide that features articles about Chinese history and culture.
You've decided to adopt a baby or an older child. Where do you start? Learn about the different types of adoption and how the process works.