The group has worked with the schools, which have tried to make the classroom environment more supportive for adoptive children and their families.

In order to protect the adoptive children, restrictions on age are reinforced.

Find opportunities to forge strong bonds with your adoptive child from the first day you bring him or her home.

Treat your adoptive children as one of the family.

And, yes, adoptive children may anguish over the facts of their birth as they grow older.

Public resources are well used to stabilize emotionally wounded adoptive children.

Last year more than 40 families attended, many of them American with adoptive children born in Vietnam.

Will adoptive children suffer when they get older and realize they have been kept from biological parents?

Among other things, it's my job to be on hand at the airport when adoptive children arrive from other countries.

Shields said that while never formally proposing, he would speak about the two marrying and raising adoptive children together.

Adoption advocates say the case has left parents worrying whether their adoptive child's father might suddenly appear and claim the child they had reared.

Fleming was happy to leave show business, serving as Marx's "valet" and raising their four adoptive children.

The couple had two adoptive children.

At the start of the movie, they show a search for David, Eve and Raymond's previous adoptive child.

She is one of Miss Spider and Holley's adoptive children.

She consequently moved to Nicaragua with her adoptive children to direct a non-profit organization devoted to children.

Adoptive parents also have to deal with criteria that is given by the birth parents of the adoptive child.

The different criteria for adoptive children makes it harder for couples to adopt children in need.

He has two adoptive children; Allen and Germaine.

"Interested teachers are contacting us to find out how they can improve their effectiveness and become more sensitive to adoptive children in their classroom.

Istah regards the poor mermaid as her own daughter and vows to do everything to make her adoptive child happy.

Together they have three adoptive children: Jesus, Daley, Essie.

On the other hand, when adopting a child, the adoptive father and the adoptive child must belong to the same clan.

His employers assured him that they did not discriminate between biological and adoptive children: there would be no attempt to deny coverage for pre-existing conditions.

Take the income-tax deduction for the first year and then put him up for sale ("Your adoptive child and you - perfect together").