Mary Kane

New Journalist Fellow

Mary Kane covers middle-class finance for The Washington Independent.
She is a business writer whose work has appeared in Salon, The
Washington Post, Politico.com, The Newark Star-Ledger and other
publications. She covered finance for Newhouse News Service in
Washington for 11 years. She lives in Arlington, Va., with her husband
and three children.

Adoption Rules Tighten Abroad

Mary Kane

For the first time since international adoption began growing in popularity two decades ago, so many countries have either shut their doors to adoption, tightened their rules or increased domestic adoption that it's now far harder to adopt overseas.