31.   Skretny suggests trying to find an adoptive family by working through your vet or a local animal rescue league.

32.   That case involved a child who was removed from his adoptive family and returned to his biological parents, because the father never terminated his parental rights.

33.   The children spent the first night in an abandoned kindergarten building and eventually found adoptive families.

34.   The couple found an adoption agency in California that seeks out new homes for children whose adoptive families no longer want them.

35.   The consensus among social workers and adoption professionals is that, whatever the risks, the empowerment of birth parents to select adoptive families has had overwhelmingly positive consequences.

36.   There are thousands of children in foster care who desperately need adoptive families.

37.   They are being looked after by adoptive families with the mostly forlorn hope of ever being reunited with their parents.

38.   They put their names in a computer database for adoptive families.

39.   Tonight, Riley represents an imprisoned African-American woman who wants her baby removed from its adoptive white family.

40.   Two of the three adoptive families have extensive foster care experience.