1.   -- Tax breaks for adoption expenses, the cost of caring for the elderly, long-term-care insurance and life insurance distributions to the terminally ill.

2.   -- Tax credits for adoption expenses and the cost of caring for elderly dependents.

3.   -- Tax breaks for adoption expenses, life insurance distributions to the terminally ill and longterm-care insurance.

4.   Gingrich included a tax credit for adoption expenses in the Contract With America and pushed it through the House, she said.

5.   If adoption expenses are paid in the year before the adoption is finalized, the credit is taken in the year the adoption became final.

6.   Their basket of tax goodies include a new child tax credit, an increase in the standard deduction for employed minors and relief from adoption expenses.

7.   They can range from reimbursement of some adoption expenses to paid leave and child-care referrals.