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The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle

The number of international adoptions in the United States reached a high in 2004 with 22,988 cases, but has since declined by 94% to 1,275 cases in 2023, according to the Pew Research Center.

Gotcha, Baby!

Adopted students reflect on being born abroad, connecting with the cultures of their birth countries and searching for their biological families.
Tali Gurule, Features Reporter
March 7, 2026

It is the week of Chandler School’s sixth-grade retreat to Big Bear. In front of the lodge dining hall, Parker Plurad ’27 and his friend are playing a game of catch before breakfast. When the friend...

Spears adopts stray dog, puppies ensue

Jessica Lee
October 10, 2012

Ten squirming balls of fur, distinguishable only by their coloring, cuddled close together on the padded floor of Performing Arts teacher Michele Spears’s apartment. Towards the end of April, Spears’s...

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