Katherine Heigl is the mother of an adopted South Korean baby, and the 'Grey's Anatomy' actress is wasting no time in showing the child to the world.Actress Sharon Lawrence holds up a picture of actress Katherine Heigl's newly adopted baby as she arrives for the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards outstanding performance nominees reception in West Hollywood, California on September 17, 2009. Stylish period drama "Mad Men" and network comedy "30 Rock" are favorites to scoop top honors on September 20 at the 61st Emmy Awards, the US television industry's equivalent to the Oscars. AFP PHOTO/ROBYN BECK (Photo credit should read ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)
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Actress Sharon Lawrence reacts to seeing a picture of actress Katherine Heigl's newly adopted baby as she arrives for the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards outstanding performance nominees reception in West Hollywood, California on September 17, 2009. Stylish period drama "Mad Men" and network comedy "30 Rock" are favorites to scoop top honors on September 20 at the 61st Emmy Awards, the US television industry's equivalent to the Oscars. AFP PHOTO/ROBYN BECK (Photo credit should read ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)
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Actress Sharon Lawrence, reacts to seeing a picture of actress Katherine Heigl's newly adopted baby, as she arrives at the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards outstanding performance nominees reception in West Hollywood, Calif. on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009. Lawrence and Heigl work together on "Grey's Anatomy". (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)
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In this photo released by PMK/HBH on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009, actress Katherine Heigl and her husband Josh Kelley pose with their adopted 10-month-old baby girl from Korea, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2009. Katherine and Josh have named their daughter Nancy Leigh, after Katherine's mother Nancy and her sister Margaret Leigh. She will go by the nickname Naleigh. (AP Photo/Cheyenne Ellis, PMK-HBH)
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GREY'S ANATOMY Katherine Heigl as Isobel "Izzie" Stevens, Justin Chambers as Alex Karev, Ellen Pompeo as Meredith Grey and Sandra Oh as Cristina Yang star in the episode "Good Mourning" - "Grey's Anatomy" returns for its sixth season with a two-hour event. In the first hour, entitled "Good Mourning" (9:00-10:00 p.m.), the hospital staff is left to deal with the aftermath of George's passing. Hitting the staff hard, they all find unique ways to get through the various stages of grief. George's mom returns, faced with the difficult task of deciding what to do with his organs. In the second episode, entitled "Goodbye" (10:00-11:00 p.m.), time has passed... Everyone is struggling after losing one of their own and are turning to any distraction they can find. Meredith and Derek seem to be consummating their marriage anywhere and everywhere, while Cristina and Owen have been instructed to abstain from sex by Dr. Wyatt. Airs Thursday, September 24, 2009.
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GREY'S ANATOMY Sandra Oh as Cristina Yang, Katherine Heigl as Isobel "Izzie" Stevens and Justin Chambers as Alex Karev star in the episode "Good Mourning" - "Grey's Anatomy" returns for its sixth season with a two-hour event. In the first hour, entitled "Good Mourning" (9:00-10:00 p.m.), the hospital staff is left to deal with the aftermath of George's passing. Hitting the staff hard, they all find unique ways to get through the various stages of grief. George's mom returns, faced with the difficult task of deciding what to do with his organs. In the second episode, entitled "Goodbye" (10:00-11:00 p.m.), time has passed... Everyone is struggling after losing one of their own and are turning to any distraction they can find. Meredith and Derek seem to be consummating their marriage anywhere and everywhere, while Cristina and Owen have been instructed to abstain from sex by Dr. Wyatt. Airs Thursday, September 24, 2009.
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GREY'S ANATOMY Katherine Heigl as Isobel "Izzie" Stevens stars in the episode "Good Mourning" - "Grey's Anatomy" returns for its sixth season with a two-hour event. In the first hour, entitled "Good Mourning" (9:00-10:00 p.m.), the hospital staff is left to deal with the aftermath of George's passing. Hitting the staff hard, they all find unique ways to get through the various stages of grief. George's mom returns, faced with the difficult task of deciding what to do with his organs. In the second episode, entitled "Goodbye" (10:00-11:00 p.m.), time has passed... Everyone is struggling after losing one of their own and are turning to any distraction they can find. Meredith and Derek seem to be consummating their marriage anywhere and everywhere, while Cristina and Owen have been instructed to abstain from sex by Dr. Wyatt. Airs Thursday, September 24, 2009.
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GREY'S ANATOMY Kevin Mckidd, Sandra Oh as Cristina Yang, Justin Chambers as Alex Karev and Katherine Heigl as Isobel "Izzie" Stevens star in the episode "Good Mourning" - "Grey's Anatomy" returns for its sixth season with a two-hour event. In the first hour, entitled "Good Mourning" (9:00-10:00 p.m.), the hospital staff is left to deal with the aftermath of George's passing. Hitting the staff hard, they all find unique ways to get through the various stages of grief. George's mom returns, faced with the difficult task of deciding what to do with his organs. In the second episode, entitled "Goodbye" (10:00-11:00 p.m.), time has passed... Everyone is struggling after losing one of their own and are turning to any distraction they can find. Meredith and Derek seem to be consummating their marriage anywhere and everywhere, while Cristina and Owen have been instructed to abstain from sex by Dr. Wyatt. Airs Thursday, September 24, 2009.
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GREY'S ANATOMY Jessica Capshaw as Arizona Robbins, Chandra Wilson as Miranda Bailey, Katherine Heigl as Isobel "Izzie" Stevens, Justin Chambers as Alex Karev, Eric Dane as Mark Sloan, Sandra Oh as Cristina Yang, Ellen Pompeo as Meredith Grey, Patrick Dempsey as Derek Shepherd, Sara Ramirez as Callie Torres, James Pickens, Jr. as Richard Webber, Chyler Leigh as Lexie Grey and Kevin McKidd as Owen Hunt.
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FILE - In this Aug. 4, 2009 file photo, actress Katherine Heigl arrives for the European premiere of Ugly Truth in London. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan, file)
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Thursday 17 September
By The K
Well, I'm happy for her, but I just don't understand why all these celebrities adopt children from everywhere except the US. I guess there aren't any children here to adopt????
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Thursday 17 September
By Toni
I agree, maybe we make it more difficult. I
cannot imgine why Jolie, and others do not
adobt from the U.S., maybe someone else knows the
reason.
Thursday 17 September
By mandaroo
She has a sister that was adopted from Korea so that is why she wanted to adopt from there.
Thursday 17 September
By BONNIE
I know why... Because the US makes sure that the home is OK and the parents are not nuts and the waiting times is years not the few months it takes with foreign adoption. And besides Branjolie have made it "popular" to have a foreign baby
Friday 18 September
By GingerRoot
The US makes the adoption process long and arduous for parents who want to adopt. On the other hand, too many people want babies which are fewer than older children. And usually, non-minority babies which are fewer still.
Thursday 17 September
By phillip tocco
I agree with you, while I'm happy for them,their are many American children in need of parents lets take care of our own first,we have white, black,hispanic, and asian children here in America that need help to.
Thursday 17 September
By Holly
The US adoption laws make it extremely difficult to adopt infants, and in many cases allow birthparents to change their minds as much as months after an adoption - a heartbreaking possibility for an adoptive parent. Adopting from foster care is even harder, with biological parents' "rights" being strongly favored even when the parents are drug addicted, abusive, or seriously neglectful of their children. International adoptions DO require significant hoops to be jumped through - homestudies, criminal background checks, post-adoption visits, etc. It is neither easy nor cheap to adopt from overseas. However, as many adoptive parents know, the answer to the question "Why adopt from overseas?" is "Because that's where my children were!"
Friday 18 September
By Carole
I think this country makes it so hard for a person to adopt. I have several friends who have adopted and there is just so much red tape here and what they put people through is horrible. They first make you take an ad out in the paper and get a toll free # for people who may want to let you adopt their baby to call you on. My friend was getting calls from people in prison who were pretending that they wanted her to adopt their child...basically a cruel prank to someone who is already dealing with the fact that they can't have their own child and now has to be put through this crap. The agencys in this country also play games...the same friend adopted her first child from an agency in Texas (which took years) and the natural mother of the child called my friend a few years later that she was pregnant again and wanted her to adopt her son's natural sibling. The agency wouldn't do it and in the end the baby was adopted out to someone else rather than have the two siblings together. The adoption system in this country is cruel.
Friday 18 September
By JustMe&MyWay
I also have several friends that have tried to adobt here in the US. The US does make it to hard to adobt. Plus if either of the biological parents want to come back & say they want them, the governments take the child & gives back to the biological parent. The abdotive family gets nothing back & are left heart broken. My one friend had her baby for 3 days, when the biological mother changed her mind. She was heart broken & out thousands of dollars.
Friday 18 September
By Kristin
Because the US's adoption laws favor the biological parent, and too many kids are taken away from their adoptive parents. I know...my husband and I are both adopted, and our wonderful friends had a baby girl taken away from them TWICE by the biological mother, who kept changing her mind. She was finally offered back to them a third time, and they had to say "no", because they didn't trust her not to do it again, and the law sided with her. I am sad for the couples in the US trying to adopt here...too scary.
Friday 18 September
By kat
What about all the American children that need homes??????????????????????????? All these stars make money in USA but ............what about our home land ????????
Friday 18 September
By Carla
I think because the adoption process is not only LONGER here, it is also more difficult, and it is a LOT easier for the biological parents to "change their minds" and take back the child you have grown a bond with.
Saturday 19 September
By Suzy
I agree! Whats up with that? They never adopt from here. I think Its a tragedy that with all the children here that need homes that they go elsewhere!!! But I guess they wouldn't get all the media then? Who knows.. Its sad for our children though, they need parents and love too. seems like no one cares about them...
Saturday 19 September
By Suzy
They do adopt kids in the US. A child without a family is a child who needs a family no matter where they come from. I'm sick of people who are so narrow minded!
Friday 18 September
By Sandy
I have always wondered the same thing. We have so many loving childern right here in the US--there is no reason to go outside the US--unless maybe they get paid big time.
Friday 18 September
By trixi
I am not one hundred percent certain, but if Jolie was in a mental institute (like she was rumored to have been when she was younger) or any kind of mental thing going on, she isn't legally allowed to adopt in the US...as far as I knew...but that is just a guess.
I agree though. What about the American babies? I get what you are all saying about how hard it is, but when you are a celebrity, you don't think you can pull some strings? And it is hard for average joes to adopt ANYWHERE.
Friday 18 September
By Mina Priddy
I work for Child Protective Services in the State of Texas, and trust me on this, there are lost of children here who need forever homes. Most celebrities decide one day they want a baby and are able to get one quickly going outside the united states. The majority of them could not pass the criminal background checks required to become licensed adoptive parents in my state. WE see good, stable families for our children and Hollywood don't seem to have many of those!
Friday 18 September
By bethe
it takes years to adopt a white baby in the US. My friend got her american baby 6 years after completeing the process. My other friend had to go into hiding for a week with her new baby because the biological father showed up after 10 months and tried to see her. Its not worth the devastation, easier to adopt elsewhere
Thursday 17 September
By balihai2
Yes-the US does make it more difficult. One of the other and, perhaps,biggest reason is that most people in the US who want to adopt, want to adopt a healthy baby-not a toddler, an older child and even more rarely, a special needs child. As many unwanted pregnancies as there are in this country-there are more parents that want 'healthy babies' than are available.
I can tell you this from personal experience.
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Thursday 17 September
By blair
Please don't use the R word.. you just have no idea how hurtful that word is when you are raising a special needs child.
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