Whitley's Adopt Second Daughter: Roxie Whitley writes of she and her husband's second adopted daughter. She and Jim traveled to China for this precious little girl. "We left April 1st and received our daughter on April 5th in Hefei City, China. Her name is Elizabeth James. She was welcomed home by many family members and friends."
Child labor—Adoption is as easy as learning Chinese: Like learning Mandarin, adopting a child from China has been more complicated than my wife and I anticipated. We adopted our first daughter in the U.S., and when we started on the second I'd been led to believe the Chinese route was easier. Yet it's been two years of mind-numbing paperwork, meetings, home studies, medical tests and background checks. Also bank checks. Lots of those.
Who will take care of Bethany?: Bethany had been left on an orphanage doorstep in the Jiangxi province in southeastern China shortly after her birth on Nov. 3, 1996. She was almost 2 when Sandra Scudder, a Loves Park postal worker, went to China in 1998 to adopt her.
Couple gets 'flower' of their dreams: Some flowers take time to bloom. For Jay and Bekki Zornes, waiting on their "beautiful" Lilly was an agonizing two years, but their smiles alone prove it was worth the wait.
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