11.   At their offices, adoption agencies also offered photo albums of children.

12.   Audrey Foster, the founder-director of the Family Connections adoption agency in California, handles about four Brazilian adoptions each year.

13.   Bolick, Tribe and Ms. Bartholet say they are also against giving adoption agencies a time limit to match children racially before allowing a transracial adoption.

14.   ----- Sondra Crosby first heard of Isatu and Nanah in a letter from a Maine adoption agency seeking families for children whose lives had been torn apart by strife.

15.   A few months ago, an adoption agency sent them pictures of two boys in Cambodia they re-named Alex and Jack.

16.   A California adoption agency introduced the Grays, of Alpharetta, Ga., to an infertile couple from Virginia.

17.   A dozen other couples using different adoption agencies from across the United States were told the same thing, even though the Cambodian government recognized the adoptions.

18.   A popular notion among adoption agencies is that there are no unwanted children, just unfound families.

19.   According to Komis, the INS informed adoption agencies in Vietnam about the new policy.

20.   Adoptive parents are still required to follow local adoption laws, which usually means making use of an adoption agency.