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Courageous decision to make. uma: sure it is. absolutely. craig, let me get to you jump in here. your focus in our document stri are international adoptions and something youre very passionate about it. is it my understanding, 10 million children around the world are stuck in adoption agencies? >> no, theyre stuck in orphanages despite the fact that there are countless families that want to adopt those children right now. we have available abundant solution. the best solution for many of the wor...

When you think about adoption, we often have a picture in our head of a childless couple who want so much to start a family but cant or of a parentless child in need of a home. recently, with the publicity of a-list celebrities adding to their broods, adopting across and abroad has become increasingly popular and aligned with humanitarian causes. in fact, the history of trans national adoption has been rife with abuse. five years ago, guatemala put a temporary moratorium on adoptions, after year...

Adoptive parents than domestic available for adoptions. now theyve been helped along by the idea that overseas, there are hundreds of millions of orphans in need of adoption. >> this was tough for me. i entered into reading about adoption, thinking about my friends, thinking about colleagues who either are themselves adopted or have adopted and did so out of such a great largess of heart. then im learning that the individual people may be making loving choices is a system that is as far as i can...

As we have as brave adoptive parents who dared to speak out. agencies are threatened and a has rad and sued by adoption agencies. it starts at the state level with better regulation of adoption agencies and there must be transparency where the sums of money are going. >> where the money is going. katherine, i felt like part of this as i was reading this, this is the other thing that kept feeling like slavery to me. somebody is making a lot of money off of this process. >> right. international ad...

Wrshz. >> arm some of them. >> the president vetoed it. you think he is telegraphing something. >> i think he thinks he is telegraphing something. i think he may think he has more running room than he has. weve seen that the white house really controls foreign policy more than the state department. hillary clinton didnt challenge that. she proposed and then the fact that she was against the policy didnt come out until leon panetta hearing at the end after she had left office. she kept her disagr...

Russia recently banned american adoptions. investigators are getting to the bottom of just what went wrong with the carnival "triumph." a coast guard official says the cause of the fire that disabled the cruise ship was a leak in a fuel tank. the oil dripped on a hot surface and caught fire. the official said that the crew responded appropriately to the fire. the horse meat scandal in europe has now drawn in food giant nestles. the global food company is suspending delivery of all of its pro...

♪ im going home to the place where i belong ♪ a 5-year-old russian girl is going home for the first time in her young life. her adoptive parents from arkansas are ready to bring her to the united states. but other couples have not been so lucky. >> here is one of the last adoptions thats being allowed. abcs kirit radia brings us is story from moscow. >> reporter: its a reunion that almost didnt happen. kendra and jason skaggs arrived in moscow to pick up paulina, a 5-year-old orphan with s...

The end of the soviet union. but russian officials have pointed to the cases of 19 children reportedly abused by american parents. meanwhile, ordinary russians reached out to offer support. one woman gave kendra and jason $1,000 to help cover expenses. another dropped off a pair of warm boots for paulina. finally, authorities agreed to allow about 50 children to travel to the u.s., including paulina. yet hundreds more adoptions remain stuck. those families may never see the children again. as sh...

Egypt and the region. >> clinton also commented on the russia reset. once perceived as a foreign policy success now has erode the to the point the russians wont even let american families adopt russian children. >> i think we just have to wait and see what the real objectives of the new russian leadership are. we thought it was self-defeating for them to take the actions they did, throwing out usaid. that hurts the russian people. i thought it was tragic that they stopped adoptions, especially t...

Forced to make a stronger effort at peace with the palestinians. theres relief for dozens of american families who feared they would not be able to adopt children from russia. overnight, the american embassy in moscow confirmed 46 pending adoptions are being allowed to proceed. some of those adopted children may arrive in the u.s. today. they were put in jeopardy when russia banned american adoptions on january 1. the new poll reveals changing views on american immigration policies. 60% of a...