![]() In the same period, the number of American agencies licensed to operate there has skyrocketed from one to 22. The total is still small - 732 children in 2006, out of a total of 20,632 foreign adoptions, but it is a steep increase, up from 82 children adopted in 1997.Įthiopia now ranks 5th among countries for adoption by Americans, up from 16th in 2000. Even before the actress Angelina Jolie put adoption in Ethiopia on the cover of People magazine in 2005, the number of adoptions there by Americans was growing. It is no wonder, given these advantages, that Ethiopia, a country more often associated by Americans with drought, famine and conflict, has become a hot spot for international adoption. ![]() And at roughly $20,000, the process was affordable compared with other foreign adoptions, and free of the bribes that are common in some countries. From Addis Ababa, the capital city, they traveled to the countryside to meet the boy’s birth mother, an opportunity rare in international adoption. ![]()
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