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Old Dec 20, 2006, 08:28 PM
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Mental health stigma, anyone?

GEEEEEEZE. You know, there's a *reason* I don't read the paper on my days off.....I'm not sure what possessed me to pick it up today.

Lifted directly from the AP wire:

China is imposing new restrictions on foreign adoptions, barring applicants who are unmarried, obese, older than 50 or who take antidepressants, according to U.S. adoption agencies.

The restrictions are meant to limit adoptions to "only the most qualified families," said the Web site of one agency, Harrah's Adoption International Mission in Spring, Texas.

The move comes amid a surge in foreign applications to adopt Chinese children. The United States is the No. 1 destination for children adopted abroad, but the number going to Europe and elsewhere is rising.

[b](((((((((((((((((MEGA-GROWL))))))))))))))) from a single, obese, antidepressant-taking, middle-aged bear!
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