Saturday, April 28, 2012

Inside Ethiopia's Adoption Boom

(April 28, 2012, The Wall Street Journal)--Seated in plastic chairs in a grade-school cafeteria in Minnesota, Sandra and Alan Roth admired their 7-year-old daughter, Melesech, making her stage debut last month in "Peter Pan" as one of the "lost kids"—the children who find themselves spirited away to a magical place called Neverland. Four years earlier, to the day, the Roths had brought Mel home from Ethiopia, where they had adopted her.

Interview with President Isaias Afwerki