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Haitian special needs adoption is the topic of the day in the nation’s newspapers. In an article for Knight Ridder Newspapers, April Saul detailed the story of a Pennsylvania family who traveled to Haiti to adopt a 4-year-old boy who had been burned and abandoned, and a 3-year-old boy who is HIV-positive.

The U.S. is one of the few countries that allows families to adopt a foreign child with HIV, writes Saul. According to the boy’s mother, Heather Maeding, a Haitian official who didn’t believe that she and her husband would want to adopt... more

A friend alerted me to an adoption agency called Christian Homes and Special Kids (CHASK). The agency specializes in placing newborn children with the following special needs:

Down Syndrome Spina Bifida Drug and Alcohol Effects Blindness HIV Positive or AIDS Fragile X Reactive... more

As a followup to my four-part series on the Christine Kilmer case (see posts from March 9, 13 and 14), I did some research into independent adoption.

In independent or private adoption, prospective adoptive parents network and/or “advertise” their intent to adopt through classified... more