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Annette Baran dies at 83; crusader for open adoption
Living with a secret is psychologically destructive — that concept was nearly an anthem for Annette Baran, a clinical social worker and psychotherapist who co-wrote "The Adoption Triangle," an influential 1978 book credited with giving early shape...Tags: Social Services, Charity, Family, Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts), Career and Workplace
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Prosecutors amend complaint against former mental hospital director to include other alleged victims [Updated]
L.A. NOWProsecutors have amended the criminal complaint against a former state mental hospital director accused of molesting his adopted son to allow alleged victims outside the statute of limitations to testify against him. In the amended complaint filed... -
State hospital chief to appear in court on charges of molesting adopted son
L.A. NOWWith the executive director of Napa State Hospital scheduled to appear in a Los Angeles County court Friday on charges he molested his adopted son, Long Beach police investigators have revealed his five alleged victims are all boys under 14....... -
'16 and Pregnant': Lori, Cory and a heart-wrenching decision
Show TrackerMTV pulled a fast one on me. Iâm used to being annoyed or irritated by the girls featured on â16 and Pregnant.â Sometimes indifferent. Always dumbfounded â even by those who arenât teen parents-to-be. Exhibit A: The dude earl... -
Why call a son 'adopted'?
Readers' Representative JournalThe opening paragraph of last weekâs article reporting the arrest of Claude Edward Foulk, the top official at Napa State Hospital, read: The executive director of Napa State Hospital, a Northern California mental institution that houses mentally ill... -
Negotiating the difficulties of a delicate pact
Times Staff WriterIT WAS A SATURDAY, midmorning. A telephone split the stillness. Kendall McArthur's adoptive mother, Dorothea, known as Dorrie, took the call in the study. In an instant, more than two years of turmoil crested, then crashed in Kendall's heart. It was...Tags: Theft, Crime, Law and Justice, Harley-Davidson Inc., Farms, Medical Research
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A pioneer in an experiment called open adoption
Times Staff WriterA tiny blue-eyed girl made her entrance into the world. An obstetrician opened his hands to receive her, just in time. A nurse started to carry the baby to her mother, but another nurse stopped her. Someone whisked the child from the delivery room. The...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Nursing, Harley-Davidson Inc., Anxiety, Defense
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Cost puts damper on this Olympic event
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIt seemed like a good idea. Bring your adopted Chinese daughters (and they're almost all daughters) back to Beijing to experience the glories of the 2008 Summer Olympics, connect with the homeland and watch the Middle Kingdom at a key moment in its...Tags: Travel, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Business Trips, Multi-Sport Events, Tourism and Leisure
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Letters to the editor
The other side of open adoption Re "Between Two Families," a two-part series, Aug. 5 and 6 If The Times intended to write in support of the adoption process, specifically "open adoption," then it seems that you picked a poor example. I am the mother of...Tags: Telemundo (tv network), Los Angeles Unified School District, Adultery, Politics, Health
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No matter what, some sense of loss
Times Staff WriterEXPERTS who advocate open adoption as well as those who oppose it say that adoptees grapple with a sense of loss. Virtually all adoptees understand that they have been given up by their birth parents and fear deep down that they might be given up again....Tags: Teen-agers, Health and Safety at School, Colleges and Universities, University of Minnesota, Education
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Live chat: between two families
Times Staff Writer2007-08-06 15:04:08.0 Administrator: Hello and welcome to our chat on open adoption. We have with us subjects of Sonia Nazario's story; adoptive mother Dorrie and adopted daughter Kendall McArthur and birth mother, Patti Dick 2007-08-06 15:04:27.0...Tags: Teen-agers, Parenting, Crime, Law and Justice, Family, Justice and Rights
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Ready to be dads, but they're going to need help
TIMES STAFF WRITERChad Hodge liked #694. She was a 21-year-old college student, 5-feet-5, 135 pounds, with straight brown hair, blue eyes and a narrow nose. She had won 16 awards in high school for academics and music, and scored a 1210 on the SAT. She was outgoing,...Tags: Biology, Tennis, Justice and Rights, Death, Julia Roberts
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