Ideas: Adoptive Health
Aired January 19, 2006 on WVIZ/PBS
Two-thirds of American families are touched by adoption. But with the lengthy wait for American-born babies, many families longing for children are turning to foreign adoptions. Unlike so many modern adoptions in this country, where the adoptive families often have a relationship with the birth mothers, it's a completely different story to bring a baby home from another country. It is for the most part a completely different experience, one that is not without some risk. Fortunately for families in Northeast Ohio going through a foreign adoption - or even thinking about it - there is help to be found at Akron's Children's Hospital.
