"adoptions" is a correct and commonly used word in written English.
It refers to the act of legally taking another person's child into one's own family, or the process of doing so. It can also refer to the act of choosing or accepting something, such as a new law or policy. Example: The couple's long-awaited adoptions were finally finalized, bringing home two beautiful children from overseas. Another example: The adoptions of new technologies in the workplace have greatly improved efficiency and productivity.
America not only accounts for a third of all foreign adoptions, but also has the highest rate of adopting children with disabilities.As Alexei Venediktov, editor of Echo Moskvy, a radio station, said on air: "This law is morally and ethically abominable.
She says the story underlines the close connections between the Catholic church and the military junta, as well as what she sees as lies and hypocrisy of a new pope who once claimed to have no knowledge of the adoptions of babies being born in concentration camps and then adopted by families close to the regime.
In practice this meant the rejection of last-minute adoptions and British annexation of states without a direct natural or adopted heir, because Dalhousie believed that Western rule was preferable to Eastern and to be enforced where possible.
MADONNA'S recent failure to adopt another African child is indicative of a downwards trend in American adoptions.
Western-style adoptions and cross-cultural families are rare in Qatar, and a report by Qatari police earlier raised questions about why the Huangs, who are of Asian descent, would adopt children who did not share their "hereditary traits".
There have been changes, such as the government's drive to increase the number of adoptions, but the model remains roughly the same.
"With this new policy, effective immediately, the justice department is taking an important step to prohibit federal agency adoptions of state and local seizures, except for public safety reasons," Holder said in a statement.
The ministry of labour and social policy replied that "this suggestion does not seem to contribute to the reduction of illegal adoptions".
In its response the ministry said the numbers on unexplained adoptions are "unreliable", as "they do not consider, for example, the adoptions taking place within families".
The ministry of justice did not express any interest in analysing the report of the Polish Foster Care Coalition.Cases of illegal adoptions regularly make the headlines.
Paperwork is in train for the first adoptions by gay couples.
