11.   The court noted that the Kansas Legislature had amended state adoption law in recent years to make it easier for residents to adopt children from other countries.

12.   Vermont, for instance, made adoptions virtually irreversible when it rewrote its adoption laws last year.

13.   We could never have foreseen in a million years that the Illinois Supreme Court would rewrite the adoption laws and apply it to us.

14.   A new adoption law was passed in March, but enacting it was delayed for months until complex questions of implementing it had been worked out.

15.   And in July, the Ukrainian parliament passed an adoption law, imposing new, tougher rules for foreign adoption.

16.   Besides fighting the child labor rings, Diabate said Malian government officials also planned to tighten adoption laws by foreigners.

17.   Enforcement is greatly complicated by the hodgepodge of adoption laws.

18.   European officials say Romania needs to adopt legislation regarding rights of abused children and to reform its adoption laws.

19.   Hundreds of children are floating in legislative limbo nearly five months after President Boris Yeltsin signed a long-debated foreign adoption law.

20.   Hundreds of children awaiting adoption by foreigners are stuck in legislative limbo while bureaucrats debate how to implement a foreign adoption law.