21.   Adopting couples pay thousands of dollars to American adoption agencies for what they presume will be above-board adoptions.

22.   Adoption agencies largely blame recent reports detailing abhorrent conditions at state-run orphanages in Shanghai.

23.   Adoption agencies and lawyers frequently advise clients to buy advertisements seeking birth mothers.

24.   Adoption agencies and many bureaucrats and legislators say the moratorium is not even legal.

25.   Adoption agencies do not like to discuss it, and parents hate to admit to it.

26.   After an adoption agency informs Mel his mom is living in San Diego, he excitedly packs up Nancy and his no-name kid.

27.   After a few telephone and face-to-face conversations arranged by the adoption agency, Kelly stuck with the New Yorkers she first called.

28.   But an adoption agency would be barred from delaying the placement of a child to wait for a prospective parent of a certain race.

29.   But American adoption agencies and advocacy groups for families with adopted Chinese children charged that the report was sensationalistic and exaggerated the problems in the orphanages.

30.   But officials of adoption agencies complained that the increases included disproportionately high charges to pay for asylum and other charity cases that the service processes at no charge.