Toddler Has Twin Removed from Stomach

It might be Halloween, but this is no Hollywood horror movie plot.  A Chinese toddler recently had surgery to remove her own twin — still growing — from her belly.

At 18 months old Kang Mengru was a normal toddler, normal except for a swollen abdomen that made her the laughing stock of the village and gave her the look of being pregnant, her foster parents told the Telegraph.

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Federal Program Aims at Increasing Adoption of Black Foster Kids

While only about 15% of U.S. American children are African American, over 30% of the children in U.S. foster care are Black.  A new federally funded campaign aimed directly at encouraging Black parents to adopt Black children from foster care launched this week to try and balance some of the disparity.

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Pro-Gay Family Judge Demoted in Miami

The judge who overturned Florida’s ban on gay parents adopting children has been demoted.  Judge Cindy Lederman made Florida history in November 2008, granting the adoption of the children of a gay foster dad who had been raising them all their lives.  Judge Lederman called the ban  unconstitutional.

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Ohio Cuts Funding to Foster and Foster-Adoptive Families

Ohio Cutting Funds to Help Foster In the latest sad story of state budgets getting desperate, Ohio is planning cuts that will directly and negatively impact the well being of foster and adoptive families across the state.

After last year’s raise from the $250 per month to $300 a month–a raise twenty years coming–the stipend for families adopting foster children will be cut to $215 per month.

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