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After man's alleged killing by adopted son, family says it was an 'isolated incident'
George Stevenson grew up in a family that cared for numerous foster children, and after mentoring and coaching boys in youth baseball for years, he decided to adopt a child of his own. He became the father of an 8-year-old boy and named him Galen,...
Tags: Juvenile Delinquency, Hospitals and Clinics, Substance Abuse, Injuries and Wounds, Family
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For Woodbine boy adopted from Nepal, reunion with best friend is Christmas gift
At Sykesville's Merry Main Street holiday celebration early in December, Burke Holbrook and his buddy Benjamin Skalka seemed like just two of the many kids that night enjoying the sights and sounds of the holiday season.
The two 5-year-olds attended...Tags: Sweden, Family, Music, Religious Festivals, Annapolis
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Baltimore court is a magnet for same-sex parents
The rows of wooden benches were filled with seven families for adoption day in Baltimore City Circuit Court last month.
A pair of gay men seeking to adopt a baby. Three lesbian couples, two with twins. Two single moms with two kids between them.
And...Tags: Minority Groups, Parkville, United States Census Bureau, Montgomery County (Maryland), Frederick (Frederick, Maryland)
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Maryland should embrace gay adoption
It's gratifying that same-sex couples in Maryland who are seeking to adopt have found a welcome reception in Baltimore City Circuit Court. Because of a city precedent and a uniform attitude among judges here that sexual orientation should not be a...Tags: Minority Groups, Family, American Medical Association, Same-Sex Marriage, Judges
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Maryland father finds his son after 35 years
For 35 years, Ron Ryba dreamed of a reunion with the infant son he and his high-school sweetheart had given up for adoption. Two days before Father's Day, that dream came true over burgers and beer at a Wilmington, Del., restaurant.
The Timonium...Tags: Father's Day, Timonium, Pharmaceuticals, Chris Christie, The Happiest News!
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Three decades after adoption, DNA test reveals painful truth
Baltimore Sun reporterFor Cockeysville businessman Ron Ryba, the long walk from the parking lot to the stadium in Philadelphia was a 29-year trail of memories. He had come to meet the son he and his high school sweetheart had never dared to look at when they gave him up for...Tags: DNA, Genes and Chromosomes, Hospitals and Clinics, Social Services, U.S. Department of Defense
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Making a case for marriage
Sun StaffIt was a minor miracle. Somehow, Kiran, Tiara, Alonzo and their parents awoke in time for the 8 a.m. service. They threw on their Sunday best, jumped into the minivan and drove the 20 minutes from their Upper Marlboro home to Covenant Baptist Church in...Tags: Netherlands, Wages and Pensions, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Defense, Annapolis
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Disease creates adoption hurdles
Sentinel Staff WriterCathie Rock didn't care that she was heading to the epicenter of the deadly SARS outbreak. She had waited nearly two years for a baby, and little Emily, in an orphanage in Anhui, China, already felt like her daughter. The Orlando woman wasn't going to...Tags: Commuting, Maitland, Hospitals and Clinics, Orange County (Texas), China
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A birth mother alleges coercion
Sun StaffFor Valerie Shefik, the effort to adopt a second Marshallese child led to what she calls one of the most heart-wrenching experiences of her life. Valerie, 44, and her husband, Robert, 46, first adopted a Marshallese child in late 1997 through the TLC...Tags: Children, Social Services, Mormon, Marshall Islands, Christianity
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Island adoption market delivers pain and profit
Sun StaffMAJURO, Marshall Islands - With four young children and a fifth on the way, a visibly pregnant Neji Johnny was an easy target for a recruiter for Adoption Choices, an American agency that scours the poverty-scarred streets of this remote Western Pacific...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, U.S. Department of State, Infants, Medicaid, Missile Systems
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A duel for a daughter agonizes two families
Sun StaffSARASOTA, Fla. - For two families in Florida, the pain of an adoption gone wrong is plainly visible on their faces. Carmen and Darlene Scoma talk sadly about the child from the Marshall Islands they thought they had legally claimed in Hawaii in 1997. For...Tags: Juvenile Delinquency, Social Services, Infants, Family, Business Trips
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Playing on mothers' hopes
Sun StaffEBEYE, Marshall Islands - Playing in the streets, diving from rusted hulks of wrecked Navy ships into crystal-blue water, swinging makeshift bats in a game of baseball on dirt lots, doing back-flips from the remains of a mattress, the children are...Tags: U.S. Department of State, Wars and Interventions, Poverty, Colleges and Universities, Infants
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