41.   Adoptive parents, like single birth parents, have to deal with pretty much the same issues.

42.   After research, including talks with several adoptive parents and an adoption consultant, Martha and Mike decided on domestic adoption.

43.   Advocates for the boy say adoptive parents here have been found for him.

44.   But Christina still spends hours corresponding with fellow adoptive parents, many of whom continue to hope for INS approval.

45.   But adoptive parents say they want to give their children the tools to deal with who they are in a complex cultural landscape.

46.   But even as Johnson and Wecker decided to switch adoptive parents, no one informed either couple about the other.

47.   But no agency, public or private, keeps statistics on how many homosexual adoptive parents or individuals there are.

48.   But on the U.S. end, the adoptive parents were stuck with having illegal-immigrant children.

49.   But not all adoptive parents have the luxury of enrolling their children in dual-language programs.

50.   But opponents decry it as a conservative, inflexible measure that would favor the rights of adoptive parents over those of both adopted children and their birth parents.