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For Some, Job Benefits Ease Growing Hassles of Adoption: Adopting a child from overseas has never been easy. But new restrictions on overseas adoptions have made the adoption process much tougher, causing added stress and job disruptions for would-be parents. The changes are demanding more patience on the part of adoptive parents, better planning and communication at work with bosses and co-workers, and more flexibility on the part of employers. Fortunately for some, the shift coincides with a sharp increase in adoption benefits by some employers, including paid leave and reimbursement for adoption costs.

Man Resorts to Surgery to Adopt Child: A man who weighed 558 pounds when a Missouri judge prevented him from adopting a child he and his wife had taken into their home underwent gastric bypass surgery Friday in a bid to win the child back.

Adoptees seek roots in China: Twelve years ago, five families from the Washington area came to this city in China's Jiangsu province to adopt children. They found little girls to welcome into their worlds and, in doing so, joined a new generation of American families that had only recently begun to adopt from this country.