There were then about 25 adopted children living in the home.

She has two adopted children at home, and is in the process of adopting a third.

All adopted children come to their new families with a history and a story.

Nothing has made me feel younger, or more alive, than my two adopted children.

The family already had one biological and two adopted children.

She lives with her two adopted children, an 8-year-old girl and a 3-year-old boy.

Tom was the only adopted child in his family and has two siblings.

She has a successful career and a happy marriage with two adopted children.

Each of the four adopted children is separated in age by only one year.

The House passed a bill that would give future adopted children the right to information about their birth parents when they turn 19.

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

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

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

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

Treat your adoptive children as one of the family.

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

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

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

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

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