The Joys, The Challenges Of Adopting From Ethiopia      Today,
we wanted to turn our attention to international adoption,
specifically from the East African country of Ethiopia, which
might ring a bell because that's where actress Angelina Jolie
adopted her daughter, Zahara, in 2005.  And it might surprise
you to learn, as we did from a recent report in The Wall Street
Journal that since 1999, more than 11,000 adoptions in the U.S.
have come from Ethiopia and, although the figures dropped last
year due to tougher laws set by the Ethiopian government, over
the past two years, Ethiopia has been second only to China as a
destination for Americans seeking to adopt. That's because the
country's short waiting periods and the availability of infants
and toddlers has made it attractive after scandals in other
countries like Guatemala caused agencies to look elsewhere.  But
there have also been complaints that the process is more
susceptible to abuse than it should be. We wanted to talk more
about this, so we've calle