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.

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

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