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• Alabama
  ...family’s gross income does not exceed 100 percent of the annual Federal Poverty Income Guidelines.
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• Edgar Allan Poe and Adoption
  [[Category: Financial Problems, Poverty, Bankruptcy]]
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• James Michener
  ...children. There was no father figure in the home and they lived in extreme poverty, although him mother loved and encouraged her many charges. Two local men a
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• Malcolm X
  ...ered by white racists in 1931. Several years later, because of their great poverty, and her mental illness, he and his siblings were taken from their mother b
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• About Azerbaijan
  ...s in a 2009 referendum, has been accused of authoritarianism. Although the poverty rate has been reduced and infrastructure investment has increased substanti
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• About Bolivia
  ...ablished in 1982, but leaders have faced difficult problems of deep-seated poverty, social unrest, and illegal drug production. In December 2005, Bolivians el
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• About Chile
  ...tained consistently since the 1980s, contributed to steady growth, reduced poverty rates by over half, and helped secure the country's commitment to democrati
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• Intercountry Adoption: Where Do I Start?: Deciding Whether Intercountry Adoption is Right For Your Family
  ...d States need foster care and adoptive families. These reasons may include poverty, illness or death of the parents, [[abandonment]], or family issues such as
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• Adopting from Fiji
  ...Social Welfare Department, under the Ministry of Women, Social Welfare and Poverty, is in charge of overseeing intercountry adoptions. For people residing in
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• Adopting from Guinea-Bissau
  Ministry of Social Solidarity and Fight Against Poverty
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• Milton Hershey School
  ...Milton wanted to give these young boys a chance since he, too, experienced poverty. This school has been around for 105 years. The book describes it’s growt
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• About Jamaica
  ...drug smuggling and money laundering. Violent crime, drug trafficking, and poverty pose significant challenges to the government today. Nonetheless, many rura
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• Adopting from Tunisia
  ...n in Tunis in December 2010 over high unemployment, corruption, widespread poverty, and high food prices escalated in January 2011, culminating in rioting tha
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• Kentucky
  *For reasons other than poverty alone, has continuously or repeatedly failed to provide or is incapable of *The parent, for reasons other than poverty alone, has continuously or repeatedly failed to provide or is incapable of
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• North Carolina
  ...ason that the parents are unable to care for the child on account of their poverty. ...below the State’s Established Income (or 150 percent of the 1992 Federal Poverty Level).
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• Tennessee
  ...cial worker]], or the department if the parents are indigent under Federal poverty guidelines. ...cial worker]], or the department if the parents are indigent under Federal poverty guidelines or if the child was placed with the prospective [[Adoptive Paren
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• Angelina Jolie and Adoption
  ...and need in third world countries. Shortly after, she began visiting other poverty-stricken countries and then was formally appointed as A Goodwill Ambassador
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• Ben Stein and Adoption
  He was first a poverty lawyer in New Haven, [[Connecticut]] and [[Washington]], D.C. before becomi
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• Eden Ahbez and Adoption
  ...ne version has him born in 1908 (another after World War I) to a large and poverty-stricken family in Brooklyn. He and his twin sister were placed in an [[orp [[Category: Poverty]]
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• John James Audubon and Adoption
  [[Category: Financial Problems, Poverty, Bankruptcy]]
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• James Best and Adoption
  ...tucky]], to a poor coal mining family with six children. When he was three poverty forced the family to place him in an [[orphanage]], but he was [[adopted]] [[Category: Poverty]]
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• A. John Bird and Adoption
  [[Category: Poverty]]
  3 KB (383 words) - 03:34, 24 February 2018
• Rita Mae Brown and Adoption
  ...he was soon placed with birth relatives who adopted her. She was raised in poverty on a farm in the rural South and now farms in Pennsylvania.
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• Rosemary Casals and Adoption
  [[Category: Poverty]]
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• Charles Spencer Chaplin and Adoption
  ...y, aged 11. The following summer they were reunited with their mother, but poverty soon forced them back to the workhouse. Their mother became mentally ill an [[Category: Poverty]]
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• Sydney Chaplin and Adoption
  ...y, aged 11. The following summer they were reunited with their mother, but poverty soon forced them back to the workhouse. Their mother became mentally ill an [[Category: Poverty]]
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• Jacqueline Cochran and Adoption
  ...nd 1910, and was orphaned as a baby. She was a foster child in a feckless, poverty-stricken family (she got her first pair of shoes when she was eight years o
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• Eugène-Rose de Beauharnais and Adoption
  ...arried the future Emperor Napoléon in 1806, after some years of living in poverty. Eugène and his sister, Hortense were adopted by their new step-father.
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• Hortense de Beauharnais and Adoption
  ...arried the future Emperor Napoléon in 1806, after some years of living in poverty. Hortense and her brother, Eugène, were [[adopted]] by their new step-fath
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• Ruth May Fox and Adoption
  [[Category: Financial Problems, Poverty, Bankruptcy]]
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• William Lloyd Garrison and Adoption
  [[Category: Poverty]]
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• Julia Grant and Adoption
  [[Category: Financial Problems, Poverty, Bankruptcy]]
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• Edmund Kean and Adoption
  Kean was the son of a poverty-stricken actress, Ann Carey, who more or less abandoned him on the streets, [[Category: Financial Problems, Poverty, Bankruptcy]]
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• Anna Leonowens and Adoption
  [[Category: Financial Problems, Poverty, Bankruptcy]]
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• Catherine McAuley and Adoption
  [[Category: Financial Problems, Poverty, Bankruptcy]]
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• James Albert Michener and Adoption
  ...children. There was no father figure in the home and they lived in extreme poverty, although him mother loved and encouraged her many charges. Two local men a
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• Family Foster Care
  ...nces prevent them from providing proper childcare. e.g., physical illness, poverty, etc.
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• Caroline Perrott and Adoption
  [[Category: Financial Problems, Poverty, Bankruptcy]]
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• Robert John Pryse and Adoption
  ...r when he was 11. He and his four brothers and sisters were raised in dire poverty and he had a total of four days of formal education in his life. He worked
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• George Reynolds and Adoption
  Reynolds was born into poverty in Sunderland, England, went into an orphanage-workhouse when he was eight
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• Julia Scully and Adoption
  [[Category: Poverty]]
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• William Tecumseh Sherman and Adoption
  [[Category: Financial Problems, Poverty, Bankruptcy]]
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• Percy LaBaron Spencer and Adoption
  [[Category: Financial Problems, Poverty, Bankruptcy]]
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• Tito and Adoption
  ...-Croatian peasant family in Kumrovec, [[Croatia]]. Because of his parents' poverty he was sent to live nearby with his grandfather from 1895 to 1900, when he [[Category: Poverty]]
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• J.R.R. Tolkien and Adoption
  In 1904 their mother died of diabetes, leaving the boys in poverty and estranged from the rest of the family because of her conversion in 1900
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• George Francis Train and Adoption
  [[Category: Financial Problems, Poverty, Bankruptcy]]
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• Trapp Family and Adoption
  [[Category: Financial Problems, Poverty, Bankruptcy]]
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• Helena Valero and Adoption
  ...ed to the Yanoami, and in 1997 she was still living with her children as a poverty-stricken Yanoami on the Ocamo Catholic mission station on the upper Orinoco [[Category: Financial Problems, Poverty, Bankruptcy]]
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• Verdingkinder and Adoption
  [[Category: Poverty]]
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• About Maldives
  ...ced a number of challenges including strengthening democracy and combating poverty and drug [[abuse]]. In early February 2012, after several weeks of street p
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• Edgar Wallace and Adoption
  [[Category: Financial Problems, Poverty, Bankruptcy]]
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• Binjamin Wilkomirski and Adoption
  [[Category: Poverty]]
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• About Indonesia
  ...orld's largest Muslim-majority nation. Current issues include: alleviating poverty, improving education, preventing terrorism, consolidating democracy after f
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• About India (The Country)
  ...s such as significant overpopulation, environmental degradation, extensive poverty, and widespread corruption, economic growth following the launch of economi ...[[India]] has many challenges that it has yet to fully address, including poverty, corruption, violence and discrimination against women and girls, an ineffi
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• About Haiti (The Country)
  ...with 80% of the population living under the poverty line and 54% in abject poverty, the earthquake further inflicted $7.8 billion in damage and caused the cou
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• About Colombia (The Country)
  ...orst in the world, and more than a third of the population lives below the poverty line. ...rd high of $16.8 billion in 2013, an increase of 7% over 2012. Inequality, poverty, and narcotrafficking remain significant challenges, and [[Colombia]]'s inf
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• About Philippines (The Country)
  ...hilippines]] averaged 4.5% during the MACAPAGAL-ARROYO administration, but poverty worsened during her term. Growth has accelerated under the AQUINO governmen
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• About Congo (The Country)
  ...el, but growth returned to around 7% per year in 2010-12. The DRC signed a Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility with the IMF in 2009 and received $12 billion
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• About Honduras (The Country)
  ...icient to improve living standards for the nearly 65% of the population in poverty. An 18-month IMF Standby Arrangement expired in March 2012 and was not rene
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• Geisha and Adoption
  ...ently delicately beautiful and graceful young girls might be sold by their poverty-stricken parents to an okiya, or "mother," the proprietress of a geisha or [[Category: Poverty]]
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• Hokusai and Adoption
  [[Category: Financial Problems, Poverty, Bankruptcy]]
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• Tecumseh and Adoption
  [[Category: Financial Problems, Poverty, Bankruptcy]]
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• Phillis Wheatley and Adoption
  ...to provide for her while he was in debtors' prison and she died in abject poverty giving birth to their third child, who also died. [[Category: Financial Problems, Poverty, Bankruptcy]]
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• William Alexander Bustamante and Adoption
  ...tely concealed or fabricated, but he was probably born in [[Jamaica]] into poverty, one of 13 children, to an Arawak mother and an Irish father, and spent som
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• Hirini Whaanga Christy and Adoption
  ...of the public eye, where they were defrauded of their money and reduced to poverty. A returned missionary who had served in [[New Zealand]] rectified their st
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• Keshav Baliram Hedgewar and Adoption
  The children were left to raise themselves in even greater poverty, and the eldest became a violent wastrel, leaving Keshav and the next-older [[Category: Financial Problems, Poverty, Bankruptcy]]
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• Zora Neale Hurston and Adoption
  [[Category: Financial Problems, Poverty, Bankruptcy]]
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• Peter Jacobs and Adoption
  ...o work until 1858. He later came into conflict with the church, leading to poverty and alcoholism. Two of his children also became missionaries. [[Category: Financial Problems, Poverty, Bankruptcy]]
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• Lin Huoping and Adoption
  [[Category: Poverty]]
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• Eruera Riini Manuera and Adoption
  [[Category: Financial Problems, Poverty, Bankruptcy]]
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• Adoption Parenting: Preschool Part 2
  ...nces, it is important to be extra sensitive to a child who has experienced poverty or [[neglect]]. For such a child, the [[loss]] of a toy might seem so tragi
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• Preschool: Discipline Considerations
  ...nces, it is important to be extra sensitive to a child who has experienced poverty or [[neglect]]. For such a child, the [[loss]] of a toy might seem so tragi
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• Full Content Testing
  ...and need in third world countries. Shortly after, she began visiting other poverty-stricken countries and then was formally appointed as A Goodwill Ambassador
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• Impact of Adoption on Adoptive Parents: Issues Related to the Type of Adoption or Age of Child
  ...abuse]] or [[neglect]], parental substance [[abuse]], [[abandonment]], and poverty. Often, there is little reliable information about the child’s background
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• Abuse and Neglect: How is Abuse and Neglect Defined by Law?
  Sometimes cultural values, the standards of care in the community, and poverty may contribute to [[maltreatment]], indicating the family is in need of inf
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• Abuse and Neglect: Looking Toward the Future
  ...ntify populations at risk for [[maltreatment]] include young maternal age, poverty, single parent status and severe personal challenges such as [[domestic]] v
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• Abuse and Neglect: Scope of the Problem
  ...g in the most disadvantaged communities, including those living in extreme poverty or those living with caretakers who are unable or unwilling to care for the
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• How to Adopt from Fiji
  ...Social Welfare Department, under the Ministry of Women, Social Welfare and Poverty, is in charge of overseeing intercountry adoptions. For people residing in ...Social Welfare Department, under the Ministry of Women Social Welfare and Poverty Alleviation, oversees all adoptions. The Social Welfare Department is appoi
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• Persons Seeking to Adopt Statistics 2011
  ...ld, currently married, and have incomes that were one-and-a-half times the poverty level. [[Adoption]] for women was also associated with infertility: They we
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• About India
  ...s such as significant overpopulation, environmental degradation, extensive poverty, and widespread corruption, economic growth following the launch of economi
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• End of American Orphanages
  ...c boom meant more families had more money and less families were living in poverty. This meant less families were placing their children into the various stat
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