Human Resources committee  All adoptions.

Human Resources committee  I would pass the name test. I would fail the birthday test.

Human Resources committee  Joy, my wife, is of Cherokee descent, so I think she speaks to that. We have always, in our home, had native culture. She was raised with it as a child, and we think it's very important. I'm Irish Canadian of Irish-Scottish Canadian descent. And we celebrate that in our family,

Human Resources committee  I have my own business. I'm a consultant, and we're very blessed that our business provides for that. Our family receives money for foster care for our foster children as well.

Human Resources committee  Do we have eight in the house right now?

Human Resources committee  All of them come home for Christmas. With grandchildren, we're about 32 for Christmas dinner.

Human Resources committee  There's one personal situation that we've encountered. Certain people know that if they change provinces, they come out from under the surveillance of the authorities and child care agencies. We feel that social workers have encouraged abusive parents to move to another province,

Human Resources committee  We are trying to adopt two more right now. We are experiencing some of the frustration that I heard from our witnesses this morning. We have two little boys in British Columbia who are siblings to the four adopted children we have. We have had resistance from, we believe, one gov

Human Resources committee  She will.

Human Resources committee  Yes.

Human Resources committee  As one friend says, Christmas is like being at Walmart.

Human Resources committee  Good morning. How do we solve this crisis? We believe the only way is to remove the bottlenecks that are involved in adoption and to address the fear, the frustration, and the finances that challenge us around adoption. Fear can be eradicated by federal programs that support ad