Adopting Couples Undeterred by SARS Risk: The new nursery is filled with stuffed bears, diapers and piles of tiny dresses. The co-workers have hosted the baby shower, and the grandparents have planned their visits. But the baby girl David Schiff and Cathy Wollman have dreamed of is still in China, waiting for them to pick her up.
Culture club: Nearly four years ago, four newborn baby girls were swaddled against the chill of a Chinese winter and placed carefully in a spot where they would quickly be discovered. Now those four girls live in America. This is their story. It is a story about adoption—and of course it is a love story—but it is also a tale of two cultures. A tale of four Chinese babies who became Americans in an instant and how they are now learning to be Chinese, in America.
International adoptions fulfill parents' dreams: After Kim Weaver watched a TV program about international adoption in 1998 and did some online research, she discovered her dream had a chance of coming true. Since she was a teenager, Weaver—a second-grade teacher and a single woman—had dreamed of adopting a Chinese baby.
Building an identity: It was love from the very moment Horace Aikman and his wife, Fran, received a picture of the "fat-cheeked" baby. And after traveling for 36 hours, as day turned into night and back into day again, they finally met the 14-month-old girl in a low-ceilinged room in Hefei, China, the capital of Anhui Province, a couple hundred miles west of Shanghai.
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