U.S. Agencies Wary of Haiti Adoptions

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Officially, Haiti's international adoption process is back in business.

Yet U.S. adoption agencies remain wary and uncertain, while families may face years of limbo as they seek to adopt children orphaned by the January earthquake. Some had been to Haiti and met children before the quake; others eagerly started from scratch afterward.

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U.S. Agencies Wary of Haiti Adoptions

In the immediate aftermath of the quake, Haiti shut down its adoption system, while allowing more than 1,000 children whose adoptions were pending to be airlifted to the U.S. under a special program.

That program has ended, and those families face challenges of their own - acclimating the children to Amer...

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