1.   But overseas adoption sets a new standard for administrative inefficiency.

2.   Even before their last in-vitro fertilization, the Ides had considered overseas adoption.

3.   Or an American official assigned to police overseas adoptions.

4.   Sherry and Bill Bogdanovich hope the new regulation also will help expedite the overseas adoption process.

5.   The case has captured worldwide attention and sent Britain scrambling to regulate overseas adoptions more closely amid a legal tangle that extends from California to Arkansas to Wales.

6.   The government introduced the quota system two years ago after news media and politicians began calling overseas adoptions a disgrace to then affluent South Korea.

7.   The outcry over the case has prompted the Department of Health to speed up laws aimed at regulating overseas adoptions in which children are brought back to Britain.

8.   They called the high rate of overseas adoptions a disgrace to a now-economically affluent country.