Sentence examples for adoption abuses from inspiring English sources

Some Russians have cited American adoption abuses, including the 19 Russian-born children who died while in the care of American parents, as cause for the ban (that statistic should be put into some context. More than 60,000 children have been adopted by Americans over the past two decades).

Page A16 New York $68 MILLION DEAL PROPOSED IN ADOPTION ABUSE CASE Lawyers for 10 disabled children who were fraudulently adopted by a Queens woman more than 15 years ago and subjected to years of abuse have proposed a $68 million settlement in a civil rights lawsuit filed on their clients' behalf, according to a confidential court filing.

The organization's services include adoption, child-abuse treatment and prevention, day care, foster care and other programs.

Topics have included transracial adoption, substance abuse in pregnancy, the birth parent perspective, and the adult adoptee perspective.

On the MTV hit reality docudrama, viewers have watched the four women deal with break-ups, adoptions, proposals, abuse, arrests and other struggles over three seasons of the original installment of "Teen Mom".

Child welfare workers in New York City said yesterday that they were poring over hundreds of records for possible cases of adoption fraud and abuse after a woman who adopted 11 foster children, and collected subsidies for them, was arrested in Florida and charged with abusing and neglecting the teenagers and young adults living under her care.

Supporters of the boys' parents reiterated their argument that the children suffered from eating disorders or a history of abuse before their adoption, not from abusive or neglectful parents.

And while parents are lured with promises of education and an improved quality of life, these children are actually at risk for poorly regulated adoption, exploitation and abuse.

Prior to the Nepal earthquake, approximately 15,000 children lived in child care homes in Nepal, and were potentially at risk of poorly-regulated adoption, exploitation and abuse.

Other books tell stories about contemporary issues, sometimes inspired by the headlines — divorce ("Promises"), adoption ("Blessings"), child sexual abuse ("The Carousel") or babies accidentally switched at birth ("Daybreak").

In a case control adoption study of substance abuse (Philibert et al. 2009), the researchers determined the participants' genotypes for SNPs encompassing the GABRA2 gene and analyzed them with respect to their history of alcohol, nicotine, and/or cannabis dependence.