Faye Jarvis recounts an affecting interview with a Catholic woman, now in her late 60s, who had become pregnant at 19. The stigma of having a baby out of wedlock — to use the language of the time — in Ireland on the cusp of the 1970s was so strong that her family dispatched her […]
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Subaru Loves Pets is funding pet adoptions and homeless pet transport
Subarus are popular with dog owners. You can tell that by its many commercials featuring man’s best friend. However, the company is doing a lot more for pets than simply keeping a handful of animal actors employed. Through its Subaru Loves Pets initiative, it has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to the ASPCA to […]
There’s a very specific reason why the Russian lawyer who met with Trump Jr. wanted to talk about adoptions
REUTERS/Carlo Allegri Donald Trump Jr. said he met with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya last June at Trump Tower to discuss compromising information she said she had on Hillary Clinton, but was disappointed when she changed the subject to Russia’s adoption policy. “It quickly became clear that she had no meaningful information,” Trump Jr. said in a […]
Most Russians back ban on US adoptions – poll
More than half of all Russians participating in a recent poll said they want the Dima Yakovlev Law, which bans the adoption of Russian children by US citizens, to remain in force, with about a third saying that one day they could become adoptive parents. State-run pollster VTSIOM reported on Monday that according to the […]
