41.   We then get to see an obviously loved and loving Barbara with her white adoptive family.

42.   Whether the battle for Baby Richard has wider implications for other adoptive families is unclear, and surely will not be decided for months.

43.   With the nurturing of her adoptive family coupled with her own stamina, Dill overcame the circumstances of her birth.

44.   Americans for African Adoptions, Inc., a licensed agency based in Indianapolis, Indiana, says the children had all been paired with adoptive families months earlier.

45.   But a former neighbor warmly recalled the adoptive family.

46.   Four-year-old Emily Maness has spent nearly all her life with her adoptive family in Massachusetts.

47.   In his meeting with adoptive families and nuns from the Missionaries of Charity, the order founded by Mother Teresa, John Paul was lavish in praise for her.

48.   Jerold Solovy, lawyer for the adoptive family, had said he also would appeal to the Supreme Court.

49.   Jerold Solovy, the lawyer for the adoptive family, said he would ask the state Supreme Court to delay the effect of its ruling.

50.   Meshulam maintains the children were handed over to adoptive families of Ashkenazic, or European, descent.