The study found that U.S. families reported a more aggressive attitude toward investment objectives than their counterparts in Europe.

This legislation would allow their adoptive U.S. families to apply immediately on their behalf to become legal permanent residents.

The number of U.S. families adopting children from outside the United States has increased substantially in the last decade.

Most U.S. families - by some estimates, up to 95% - use disposable diapers.

Form I-800 later determines the eligibility of a particular child to be adopted into a U.S. family.

In 2010 and 2011 a number of U.S. families reported being robbed inside their resort hotel rooms while they slept.

The Homestay Program allows international students the cultural experience of living with a U.S. family.

(3.4 million in 2011) affecting an average of 1 out of 10 U.S. families with children under the age of 18 each year.

Over the last decade, U.S. families have adopted on average approximately 20,000 children from foreign nations each year.

It could have refused, she pointed out, "but I don't think that would have been well received by the U.S. families."