Md. couple bonds with teen as interest grows in adopting older foster children

Once there was the idea of a child. Now there is Frenice: a middle-schooler who steeled her way through 14 foster homes before moving last summer to a comfortable Prince George's County neighborhood, where Sharon and Michael Rollins embraced her as their daughter. Foster care - Family - Home - Parenting - Foster Parents

Adoption interrupted

Like an arranged marriage, an adoption is the meeting of strangers who hope to stay together forever. Sometimes it doesnt work out.

Parents of missing boy appear in court on theft charges

Doug and Valerie Herrman are accused of fraudulently receiving an adoption subsidy for their son Adam for years after he disappeared in 1999.

Adopting special needs kids tough but rewarding, parents say

    The idea of adoption had always interested Angela Kuhn.     The notion became a reality after a friend's e-mail sent Angela, her husband, Craig, and their three children, Grace Hughes, 10, Grant Hughes, 7, and Chloe, 2, on an adoption odyssey that resulted in a new family member: Colin Matvey Kuhn, 3.  

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