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		<title>I Found My Mom Through Facebook</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lori</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/fashion/i-found-my-birth-mother-through-facebook.html?_r=1 By LISA BELKIN “MOMMY, Mommy, she found me, she found me.” Sixteen-year-old Alexander Dorf stood at the top of thestairs in his Tenafly, N.J., home two years ago, grinning broadly at hismother, Jami. He had just gotten a message on his Facebook wall that he’dbeen waiting for all his life. From a Florida woman [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;re getting a $54,000 tax refund!</title>
		<link>http://www.nyhomestudy.net/2011/04/03/were-getting-a-54000-tax-refund/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2011 17:13:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lori</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Blake Ellis, staff reporter April 01, 2011: 05:37 AM EDT The Wards couldn&#8217;t believe the news when their tax preparer called to tell them they&#8217;re getting a $54,000 refund this year. Thelma Ward was speechless. She had to hand the phone to her husband so she could dance around the living room floor in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Case For International Adoption</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 02:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lori</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jeneen Interlandi Despite sensational headlines about Haitian orphans, children adopted from developing nations can thrive in the United States. I know, from personal experience. Earthquakes in Haiti and Chile have left thousands of children orphaned and revived debates over the value of international adoption. In the weeks since a group of American missionaries were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dismantling of International Adoptions</title>
		<link>http://www.nyhomestudy.net/2008/08/31/the-dismantling-of-international-adoptions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miriam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Miriam Vieni L.C.S.W. When we adopted our daughter in 1974, the field of international adoptions was on the verge of blossoming into an exciting range of opportunities for homeless children and would-be adoptive parents. Up to that point, there were a very few large agencies (perhaps three or four) involved in facilitating the adoptions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Are We? New Dialogue on Mixed Race</title>
		<link>http://www.nyhomestudy.net/2008/04/01/who-are-we-new-dialogue-on-mixed-race/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miriam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By MIREYA NAVARRO, March 31, 2008 Jenifer Bratter once wore a T-shirt in college that read &#8220;100 percent black woman.&#8221; Her African-American friends would not have it. &#8220;I remember getting a lot of flak because of the fact I wasn&#8217;t 100 percent black,&#8221; said Ms. Bratter, 34, recalling her years at Penn State. &#8220;I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Good Reasons to take Courses on Adoption</title>
		<link>http://www.nyhomestudy.net/2008/03/24/some-good-reasons-to-take-courses-on-adoption/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:25:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miriam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Miriam Vieni, L.C.S.W. Now that the U.S. is implementing the Hague Treaty on International Adoptions, adoptive parents are being required to take courses to prepare them for the adoption experience. For many, this seems like one more burden added to an arduous adoption process. Having been through the experience of international adoption myself, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adopting Across Racial Lines</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 19:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Andrea Troy Race in America is forefront in the news. With Barack Obama, a man who is black and white and running for president, it is here with renewed vigor. His candidacy would be even more surprising if we weren’t a country so full of contradictions. Interracial unions and the biracial offspring they produce [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USA Makes Adoption Harder</title>
		<link>http://www.nyhomestudy.net/2008/02/11/usa-makes-adoption-harder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lori</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you want to rescue an abandoned child and give him a loving home? Don&#8217;t even try, says the U.S. State Department. That&#8217;s not exactly what the bureaucrats said, but it&#8217;s close. The State Department says the Guatemalan adoption system &#8220;unduly enriches&#8221; so-called baby brokers and that &#8220;Guatemala has not established the required central authority [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Families Adopting in Vietnam Say They Are Caught in Diplomatic Jam</title>
		<link>http://www.nyhomestudy.net/2008/02/11/families-adopting-in-vietnam-say-they-are-caught-in-diplomatic-jam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lori</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By ELIZABETH OLSON WASHINGTON — Eyes like black pearls, the softest skin and little tufts of hair made it totally easy to fall in love at first sight. And that is what Julie Carroll — and Jewel McRoberts and Tommi-Lynn Sawyer — did when they saw the three tiny girls at a Vietnamese orphanage. They [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Orphanages Stunt Mental Growth, a Study Finds   NYTimes.com</title>
		<link>http://www.nyhomestudy.net/2007/12/20/orphanages-stunt-mental-growth-a-study-finds-nytimescom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lori</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[December 21, 2007 Orphanages Stunt Mental Growth, a Study Finds By BENEDICT CAREY Psychologists have long believed that growing up in an institution like an orphanage stunts children’s mental development but have never had direct evidence to back it up. Now they do, from an extraordinary years-long experiment in Romania that compared the effects of [...]]]></description>
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