Ms. JILL JACOBS (Executive Director, Family Builders by Adoption): They don't have this Ozzie and Harriet notion of what a family should be and how kids should come, and don't necessarily have a need for newborn babies.

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"With preparation and humanitarian aid people can cope with drought but they can't cope with drought and conflict, " shadow international development secretary Harriet Harman said.

BBC: Minister calls for more Horn of Africa aid

Harriet Harman once joked that if she became prime minister "there wouldn't be enough airports for all the men who would want to flee the country".

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