She's mom to 300 - Miami HeraldTrudy Petkovich
| She's mom to 300 - Miami Herald Trudy Petkovich qualifies for more than 300 Mother's Day cards this Sunday. Petkovich, 60, has been a mom to more than 300 foster children. Since 1991, Petkovich's home in Cutler Bay has been a safe haven for babies in the custody of the Florida Source: www.miamiherald.com Who's your mommy? - Los Angeles Times 'You'll call me Mom now." I gazed in dismay over my three-tiered wedding cake at my new mother-in-law. "All right Mom," I stammered. Almost every culture offers variations on the word "ma," itself a universal sound produced by suckling infants Source: www.latimes.com Misunderstandings plague African adoptions - Los Angeles Times MOMBASA, KENYA -- The offer of a foreign education for her beloved youngest son seemed like a dream come true for Elizabeth Rioba. But the Kenyan mother says a family member tricked her into signing adoption papers, and children adoptions now it's been five years since Source: www.latimes.com Modern motherhood: Mom took unconventional road - Independent Record he Macefield household was abustle with activity Wednesday with the jostling and children adoptions chatter of four children and children adoptions the comings and children adoptions goings of various pets. At the center of the whirl sat Kathy Macefield, who was surprised to attract any Mother s Day Source: www.helenair.com Mass adoptions celebrated - El Paso Times Judge Oscar Gabaldon visited with Socorro Moreno and children adoptions her family after presiding over the adoption of her five grandchildren, after Moreno's daughter was diagnosed with cancer and children adoptions other medical problems. From upper left are Gabaldon holding Adrianne Source: www.elpasotimes.com Local family adopts three children from Asia - Morning Sun When Lori and children adoptions Kyle Fleming eat a family dinner, their dinner table looks like a meeting of the United Nations. Aidan, 4, is adopted from Kazakhstan. Keagan, 3, is from China, and children adoptions Miriam, 23 months, was brought back from India on May 3. Each time Source: www.morningsun.net Americans find it harder to adopt abroad - Baltimore Sun CHICAGO - As long as Lisa Belgrad can remember, she has wanted to be a mother. With each passing year, though, the chances grew dimmer, until the 41-year-old school social worker let go of the fantasy of giving birth and children adoptions channeled her energy into Source: www.baltimoresun.com Sixteen blessings for this mom - Kansas City Star As with most mothers, Jeri McDonnell rightly can expect her fair share of attention today. She is, after all, the mother of 16 children. None of them multiples. No stepchildren. No adoptions. All with her husband, Tim. So Mother s Day, as expected Source: www.kansascity.com A public adoption is easier than you think - Miami Herald Beverly Watts, mother, created a family over the Internet. Unable to have children of her own, Beverly, 50, of Sunrise, was determined to adopt a child. She took classes at Calvary Chapel church in Fort Lauderdale. She got a physical exam. She filled Source: www.miamiherald.com |