Adopted from foster care, the siblings struggled with their grades when they entered junior high school.
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Max Shatto, 3, who was adopted from Russia, lived in Texas with his adoptive parents.
But at the children's home that Maksim Kuzmin was adopted from, we found a very different reaction.
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The Fenskes have four other adopted children with special needs, including a 6-year-old boy adopted from Kyrgyzstan in 2007.
Most children adopted from Africa go to the United States or France, two of the world's biggest receiving countries, Selman said.
Madonna visited the nation with her children, including son David Banda and daughter Chifundo James, both of whom were adopted from Malawi.
"The Department of State takes very seriously the welfare of children, particularly children who have been adopted from other countries, " she said.
Absolute majority of the children adopted from Russia have their lives here.
Max Shatto, adopted from a Russian orphanage, died on 21 January.
Max Shatto and his younger brother Kristopher were adopted from an orphanage in north-west Russia last year by Alan and Laura Shatto, who live in Gardendale, Texas.
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Max Shatto, born Maksim Kuzmin, and his younger brother Kristopher were adopted from an orphanage in north-west Russia last year by the Shattos, who live in Gardendale, Texas.
I'm not at all opposed to children being adopted from Africa, China or any other country, but it does raise the question: What's wrong with adopting American children?
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Keepman, 51, her husband and grown daughter were making their way home to Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, with two new family additions in tow -- a boy and girl they'd just adopted from Ethiopia.
Many of the children adopted from Uganda are given a better shot at life overseas - certainly in material terms -- but the speed and ease of the process has many observers worried.
In a landmark 1984 study, my colleague Sarnoff Mednick found that children in Denmark who had been adopted from parents with a criminal record were more likely to become criminals in adulthood than were other adopted kids.
The US state department said it would help Russian officials make contact with the appropriate authorities in Texas, and that it "took very seriously the welfare of children, particularly children who have been adopted from other countries".
It says that on average, children wait about 20 months to be adopted from the time they are taken in to care, and that only four local authorities meet the current statutory target of going through this process in 14 months.
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The film will involve people who have adopted dogs from the centre, staff, and dogs from the kennels.
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He told AFP news agency Spidey writer Brian Michael Bendis is Jewish and has two adopted children from Africa.
"I have met couples who have adopted children from China and Nicaragua, but they all wanted to adopt a child from care here, " he said.
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