This is a PSA that Scott Fujita of the New Orleans Saints (an adoptee himself) filmed for The Adoption Services of Catholic Charities. The kids in the video are children adopted through the agency. My son Nathan is in Scott’s number 55 jersey and is the child shown at the end of the video. For more info on Adoption, visit www.AdoptNOLA.com. Thank you Scott for this PSA and thank you Catholic Charities for helping bring Nathan into our lives!

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(Huffington Post) Russian-U.S. relations devolved last week after an American mother sent her 7-year-old adopted son back to Russia, alone, because, as she claimed in a letter she sent with the child, she was “lied to and misled by the Russian orphanage workers and director regarding his mental stability and other issues.” The story has spurred tremendous concern and discussion, in large part over the seeming assumption on the part of the adoptive mother that the boy could be returned to place-of-purchase, like a faulty television set. On a broader scale, though, the drama brings out the very particular anxieties that the people of Russia and the United States feel about International Adoption and forces us to focus, once again, on the confounding issues it raises.

Scott Drake interviews Indiana Adoption law expert Joel Kirsh

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45 years years after being given up for Adoption, Scott finds Ruth, his birth mother and much more than he was looking for. This is a truly heartwarming story. THIS IS PART 2 OF 2.

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45 years years after being given up for Adoption, Scott finds Ruth, his birth mother and much more than he was looking for. This is a truly heartwarming story. THIS IS PART 1 OF 2.

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