Although the number of private adoptions has remained about the same since 1982, the techniques used have changed.

On the heels of a failed private adoption, I became pregnant.

It is not like entering into a typical private adoption.

None of them can afford private adoption, which can easily run up to $20,000.

They, too, had heard that private adoptions would be beyond their financial reach.

I could tell him my friends have decided to drop their case against the fertility center and try for a private adoption.

It is the private adoption that has that great potential, if not fact, for the exploitation of the mother.

In the private adoption, the woman is already pregnant.

I'm told you and your husband are interested in a private adoption.

"Which is why they probably had to arrange a private adoption, through an attorney."