1.   I cast my net wide enough to find parents who vary from house cleaner to fashion designer to electrician to corporate manager.

2.   They housed children who could not find foster parents or who were too old to fit easily into a new family environment.

3.   This was an influential study which broadly supported the view that permanent substitute parents should be found for children in long-term care.

4.   And anyway, I ought to go and find my parents.

5.   An adoption agency with a difference has been set up to help find parents for orphan lambs.

6.   And it is hard to find foster parents with room for four, let alone the willingness to take care of so many troubled children at once.

7.   And they are delinquent in finding adoptive parents for children languishing in foster care.

8.   But the bureau has been hampered in finding deadbeat parents who work in government jobs.

9.   Child advocates say they are concerned that if single and gay people are discouraged from adopting, many needy children will never find parents.

10.   Decades ago it was less difficult to find foster parents, because most women stayed at home.