Media Contact: Info@AdoptionHistory.org
The front featured photo: Robert Meeker with his adopted daughter, Carys. Robert and Amy Meeker, from Dallas, Texas, agreed to adopt Chinese girl Parents told Carys, eight, had spinda bifida but agreed to take her anyway But when she arrived at their home, couple found a host of other issues They say girl is blind, deaf, has hepatitis C, severe …
Islamic legal rulings about foster parenting and adoption By Huda The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) once said that a person who cares for an orphaned child will be in Paradise with him, and motioned to show that they would be as close as two fingers of a single hand. An orphan himself, Muhammad paid special attention to the care of …
48 Hours brought the girls and their mothers to Guadalajara, where local guides, with the help of information from the adoption papers, took them back to the last known address of their birth mother – a woman named Norma De La Cruz. But no one in this working class neighborhood could tell the girls where to find Norma, so 48 …
They decided to meet at a neutral spot, a McDonalds parking lot. Tamara brought her ex-boyfriend and her best friend for emotional support. “I see this girl with a big, black bubble jacket with dark long hair, and I’m like, ‘That’s Tamara.’ And I couldn’t look,” says Adriana. “We both wore bubble jackets, jeans. Mine was purple, hers was black.” …
Adriana Scott was adopted from Mexico when she was just weeks old. While growing up on Long Island, N.Y., she noticed that she looked nothing like her cousins. She had no idea why she excelled at certain things. “I’m very into music and into dancing,” she says. “My family’s not like that, really.” And she always believed her quirks were …
