Adoption

I do not know what clothes I was wearing. Whether I'd been left in a cradle or with any note of explanation. I do not know if I cried or lay still. Looked around or slept. Minutes may have gone by. Or hours.

All the official record says is that, at about 2 months old, I was abandoned at the Nambu police station in Busan, South Korea.

Labeled a "foundling," I was taken to an orphanage and given a birth date and a name -- Dong Hee Ahn. It was 1978. After a year and a half, I was transferred to a foster home in Seoul, where a social worker noted:

"Her all action development progress was slower than same aged children due to being cared at orphanage for long."

Robert and Rita Wilson had plans.

"I was going to be retired by now," Robert Wilson said. "I was going to do this, I was going to do that -- and I was putting money away."

Those plans changed nine years ago, with one phone call.

Their son's girlfriend was on the line, saying they were in a bad situation and couldn't care for their 1-year-old.

"I went out and picked him up," Robert Wilson said of his grandson, Kyler Baumgartner. "We've had him ever since."

You feel a tight ball of anxiety in your stomach just before you take off the lid of the little pink wand. There's only one red line; you let out a sigh of relief -- you're not pregnant.

If that has happened to you, then you know what a pregnancy scare is like. Many girls have at least one in their teen years.

SALT LAKE CITY — A birth father now has a clearer direction on how to retain his parental rights if a birth mother notifies him of her intentions to place their baby for adoption.

About 6 p.m. each night, the Budge household appears to be like many others.

Mom rushes around preparing dinner, Dad helps the older kids with homework, siblings pick fights with one another, and one asks when dinner will be ready.

But as far as Brad and Tammy Budge are concerned, their family is anything but ordinary. In fact, they believe the very existence of their family is a miracle.

LAYTON -- A local family is welcoming into their home a 14-month-old girl whom they named years before she was even born.

HOOPER -- Raising a child with disabilities is a challenge to any parents. Adopting children with disabilities is another matter altogether, but one couple knew it was something they were just meant to do.

Steve and Anita Ure had talked about adopting children even before they were married. They had seen children being airlifted out of Vietnam in the 1970s and vowed to someday adopt.