Sentence examples for adoptions so from inspiring English sources

It does not recognise second-parent adoptions, so she is unable to legally adopt them.

When problems with the Adopt-a-Horse program emerged and the BLM was accused of allowing too many adoptions so as to deplete feral horse populations on federal land and allowing "adopted" horses to sell for slaughter, in 1978 Congress passed the Public Rangelands Improvement Act (PRIA).

His sample did not include international adoptions so it's hard to measure the true demand for Asian babies.

When the reunification treaty was signed in 1990 the new German state had not distinguished between legal and illegal adoptions, so every case today is dealt with according to the old West German law, which prohibits natural parents from finding out about children they voluntarily gave up.

I decide to interview the spokesman for the ministry responsible for adoptions so that he can explain to me exactly how, if Malawian law states that you must be resident in Malawi for 18 months before adopting, Madonna managed it with David in less than 18 days.

Kerry Blackstock, the charity's director of fundraising, said: "Any texts sent to us instead of Cancer Research would not result in any donations going to help protect polar bears as WWF relies on human operators calling people back to confirm adoptions, so no money would have changed hands.

Given the intensity of the need and the number of families that want to adopt, why is interstate adoption so rare?

Years later this friend told me that at the age of 17 she had been obliged to give up a child for adoption so she too fitted the hypothesis.

Behr has collected more than 300 cases of alleged forced adoption so far, and she is trying to help more than 200 people to find family members.

There are no reliable national statistics on adoption, so it is impossible to know how many adoptions take place each year, how many are done through licensed agencies, how many are arranged privately, or how much money changes hands.

Most of the responses were not returned – let alone tabulated – by the time the proposed constitution was for adoption, so they could not possibly have affected the drafting process.