1.   Bush pointed to his own state as a leader in improving foster care and the adoption system.

2.   Imagine if that energy had been directed toward an effective adoption system that would reduce both abortions and heartbroken infertile couples, two goals that stir hardly any controversy.

3.   Romanian children who wind their way through the current adoption system are lucky.

4.   She began reading everything she could find about the subject and diverted her growing rage into anger at the adoption system itself.

5.   Wineman worked against corporal punishment of children, arbitrary suspensions and expulsions from school, and the inadequacies he saw in the foster care and adoption systems.

6.   New laws are meant to simplify adoptions and put a stop to illegal payments to officials controlling the adoption system.

7.   The EU has insisted that Romania improve its treatment of orphans and its adoption system before it can join the organization.

8.   Wineman worked against corporal punishment inflicted on children, arbitrary suspensions and expulsions from school, and the inadequacies of the foster care and adoption systems.

9.   Romania also plans to revise its adoption system.