Foreign adoptions bring home love

This article in the Kansas City Star has a nice profile of a family who adopted two daughters from China:

It doesn’t matter a bit to Maggie and Katie McKain that they don’t look like their parents.

All that matters to Katie, 2½, is that she can nuzzle up to Mommy when she wants a safe, familiar place to cuddle. For Maggie, 4½, few things are more important than tugging at Daddy’s hand and leading him to the dessert that beckons in the refrigerator.

The fact that the girls were born in China and their adoptive
parents hail from Michigan and Kansas means nothing.

Also contained in the article are various reasons some families choose international adoption as well as a discussion on adoption trends. While there were over 20,000 children adopted internationally last year, there were over 100,000 children adopted domestically in the U.S.