The Hardings became interested in international adoption after traveling to Uganda with a church group.
It is easy to understand why international adoption is a hot-button issue for many countries.
It punishes thousands of children whose only chance of finding an adoptive family is through international adoption.
They then reportedly sent them to welfare centres from where they were put up for international adoption.
At the same time, international adoption, even though it doesn't solve the whole problem, it solves a problem for a few.
You often hear attacks on international adoption as robbing a child of his or her culture, and that's both true and false.
The group has no experience running an orphanage, has not registered as an international adoption agency and has not filed with the U.S. government as a nonprofit.
He added that the organisation believes that "international adoption should only be considered if the child is a genuine orphan, and if all other alternatives in their own country have been genuinely exhausted".
"He has constantly maintained his goals of keeping the central bank independent of political pressure and the adoption of international standards, not only at the BOT but across the entire Thai banking industry, " says Piti.
The World Bank is making its loans to some South Korean companies conditional on their adoption of a set of international accounting standards.
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December 2nd 2004 was designated the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, to commemorate the adoption of a 1949 convention against human trafficking.
The bloc's surprise adoption of sweeping financial and energy sanctions in 2012 became the centerpiece of international pressure to bring Tehran to the negotiating table.
"With the new devices that Samsung, Amazon and others have brought to market in the recent months, we see the adoption of Android tablets growing quickly, " said Eric Alexander, Head of International Development at Flipboard.
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Showing her proverbial sensitivity, she recalled that the adoption of the World Heritage Convention on 16 November 1972 had made it possible for the international community to take an unprecedented step towards the recognition of the thousand-year-old legacy of human knowledge and of the work of nature since the very origin of the world.
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