Adam Pertman

Executive Director, Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute

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Executive Director of the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, an education, research and public-policy organization, and author of Adoption Nation: How the Adoption Revolution Is Transforming America

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Spurred by church groups, charities and Hollywood stars, American families had been adopting foreign children at an increasing rate.

The Business of Child Adoptions

Spurred by church groups, charities and Hollywood stars, American families had been adopting foreign children at an increasing rate.

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