adoption

At sixteen, Sara is pregnant, alone, and desperate, so she arranges an open adoption with George and Eva, an older couple longing for a child, but after the baby is born, Sara's unmistakable link with the child forces Eva to make a drastic decision with devastating consequences.

Discusses how and why adopted children may try to locate and get to know their birth parents and examines possible psychological benefits and problems associated with the process.

Examines the effect of open adoption on children of various ages.

Looks at how attitudes toward adoption have changed in the United States, becoming more open for all parties involved, and suggests ways in which lawmakers can improve the process.

Cindy's worst nightmares begin to come true when her adoption by the McLean family is not approved and when Glory, the stolen colt that Cindy rescued from abuse, is put on the auction block by its real owner.

Unhappy with her family's move to a new city and after a disastrous first week at her new school, twelve-year-old Missy is convinced that her best and only friend is her dog Baby.

A young girl asks her parents to tell her again the cherished family story of her birth and adoption.

Now permanently settled with Aunt Fiona, who has adopted him and his siblings, thirteen-year-old William gets the chance to play Puck in a professional production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream.".

Horace, an adopted child, realizes that being part of a family depends on how you feel and not how you look.

When her adoptive father is hospitalized after an accident, Mellie is befriended by Geem-Wah, owner of a Chinese laundry, who holds the key to the events surrounding Mellie's birth eleven years ago.