Great AP article on the growing trend of Ethiopian adoptions by David Cracy

Adoptions from Ethiopia rise, bucking global trend

By DAVID CRARY, AP National Writer – Tue Oct 12, 2010
NEW YORK – As the overall number of international adoptions by Americans plummets, one country — Ethiopia — is emphatically bucking the trend, sending record numbers of children to the U.S. while winning praise for improving orphans' prospects at home.

It's a remarkable, little-publicized trend, unfolding in an impoverished African country with an estimated 5 million orphans and homeless children, on a continent that has been wary of international adoption.

To read the rest:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101012/ap_on_re_us/us_ethiopia_s_orphans_1