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

52.   Officials said Monday the number and the racial make-up of the pool of potential adoptive families are not known.

53.   Sharpley said she was rejected by her first adoptive family, in Columbus, Neb.

54.   These days, Zandt has little contact with his adoptive family.

55.   The latest case involved seven children due to leave an orphanage to join adoptive families in Slovakia.