1.   The Government proposes to implement a major review of adoption law in the New Year.

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

3.   Adoption laws were eventually changed to make the process easier.

4.   But Judge Pressler said the trial judge read the adoption law too literally and restrictively.

5.   But, like a draft law that sought to mandate AIDS tests for all foreign visitors to Russia, the new adoption law also seems responsive to rising nationalism.

6.   Diane Wanger, a Fort Worth-area attorney who has researched Texas adoption law, said she found no statute that guarantees confidentiality for birth parents.

7.   Foster adoption laws and services vary widely from state to state.

8.   Hundreds of Americans are facing the prospect of empty cradles after the Chinese government abruptly changed its adoption laws.

9.   Previous to passage of current adoption laws in Romania, scandals erupted about children actually being sold to foreigners.

10.   Scholars on both sides of the issue say recent cases point up problems with current adoption laws.