41.   Prospective parents land in Moscow, get driven to their hotel, meet their adoption agents and rest for their trip to the orphanage or flight to Siberia.

42.   Prospective foster parents must allow the state to conduct a thorough home study and to check for criminal records.

43.   Reproductive specialists will police their own to make sure that prospective parents are given realistic assessment of their chances of conception, he said.

44.   Samuel Totaro, a lawyer in Philadelphia who represents parents in such cases, said he expected to see more suits as prospective parents turn increasingly to other countries.

45.   Schwartz and Ms. Relin, the prospective adoptive parents, keep in touch by watching a video of her and sending toys.

46.   Still, many prospective parents, not wanting the uncertainty of dealing with birth mothers, never even consider domestic adoption seriously.

47.   Surrogate parents, Erskine said, should undergo the same extensive scrutiny that the state requires of prospective adoptive parents, she said.

48.   The decision by Commissioner James Ziglar received a short burst of attention at the time because a dozen prospective parents were marooned in Cambodia.

49.   The indictment also alleges that Reyes sent mentally challenged and sexually abused children to prospective parents.

50.   The large-scale response surprised the folks at Worldwide Pest Control, who Tuesday were narrowing the field of prospective adoptive parents from as far away as Kansas.