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From the week of September 14

Best performance by a Hollywood actor playing a onetime Coloradan

Chad Lowe

Best Clothes for Chinese-American Princesses

Meili & Me

Best Quote by Bill Owens

On Hunter S. Thompson's death

Decades of Influence: Colorado 1985 - Present

Carol Keller Project Space

Sex Registration

Do you know where your children are?

Father Hood

Nineteen-year-old Albert Galvan wants to raise his baby, but the court says she's better off with her foster parents.

Broken China

David Ball’s thriller China Run probes the real world of foreign adoptions in mysterious China.

A Bothersome Brother

Staging problems and a talky script deflate an earnest look at family and race.

Pop Quiz

As genetic testing pins down paternity issues, the definition of fatherhood gets murkier.

Suffer the Children

Three kids with attachment disorder have died in Colorado -- but according to Foster Cline, their parents and therapists are the ones most in need of help.

Father Knows Best

For Dan Savage, promiscuity takes a back seat to parenthood.

Feud for Thought

For Dan Savage, promiscuity takes a back seat to parenthood.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

For Dan Savage, promiscuity takes a back seat to parenthood.

Terrible Two

Renee Polreis and her adopted son had a miserable life together--until someone put an end to it.

Home Boys

The state orphanage sheltered almost 17,000 children over the years. That makes for one big family reunion.

Letters

The state orphanage sheltered almost 17,000 children over the years. That makes for one big family reunion.

Letters

The state orphanage sheltered almost 17,000 children over the years. That makes for one big family reunion.

Adopting an Attitude

Since private agencies took control of adoption in colorado, costs have gone up. For would-be parents, so have the heartaches.

Lost and Found: A Comic Genius

Since private agencies took control of adoption in colorado, costs have gone up. For would-be parents, so have the heartaches.

HOME AGAIN, HOME AGAIN

HOW THE GOVERNMENT'S ATTEMPTS TO "REUNIFY" CHILDREN WITH THEIR PARENTS HURT KIDS AS MUCH AS THEY HELP THEM.

AN INCOMPLETE SENTENCE

FOR A DOZEN YEARS, FUGITIVE PEDOPHILE JAMES CHRISTENSEN CLAIMS HE LIVED CRIME-FREE. THAT'S NOT ENOUGH FOR THE STATE PAROLE BOARD.THE SINS OF THE FATHER WHEN PEDOPHILE JAMES CHRISTENSEN WAS SENTENCED UNDER THE DAY-TO-LIFE STATUTE, THE STATE DIDN'T FIGURE O

ADOPTING AN ATTITUDE

JUDGE DANA WAKEFIELD IS ACCUSED--AGAIN--OF STALLING ON THE STATE'S LAW FOR ADOPTEES.

Baby daddy unknown: Missing fathers can throw kinks into adoption plan

A Flickr photoDo these feet look like yours, Christopher?​Readers of the Denver Daily News saw an unusual item in a recent issue. The "Notice of Anticipated Expedited Relinquishment of Parental Rights" was addressed from attorney Virginia L. Frank, representing Adoption Choices of Colorado, o ... More >>

Simon Says

A Flickr photoDo these feet look like yours, Christopher?​Readers of the Denver Daily News saw an unusual item in a recent issue. The "Notice of Anticipated Expedited Relinquishment of Parental Rights" was addressed from attorney Virginia L. Frank, representing Adoption Choices of Colorado, o ... More >>

Preview: A Vietnamese adoptee takes a long journey home in Steve Stajich's Mekong Joe

​Operation Babylift, which flew hundreds of babies out of Vietnam after the 1975 fall of Saigon for adoption in the United States, has faded from national memory. But for actor Joe Wandell, born Hai Tran Thai and the son of a Vietnamese woman and a GI, it remains the central fact of his life. ... More >>

Edward and Linda Bryant: What happened to alleged scammers' kids, missing for years?

Big pics below.​Edward and Linda Bryant have been accused of theft, forgery and several other related offenses. But are they also guilty of murdering two adoptive children, then continuing to collect aid checks in their names? That's what El Paso County authorities are trying to figure out -- ... More >>

Dog gone: Ichabod the pit bull's mysterious journey from Colorado to Missouri and back

More pics below.​A year ago yesterday, Ichabod, a three-year-old pit-bull mix, found a new home after Nick Hooten and Jill Paros adopted him from the Humane Society of Boulder Valley. For much of the time since then, though, he's been somewhere else. He vanished in August, only to resurface in ... More >>

Wendy Alfredsen fights for daughter's return from Norway, where her other mom took her

Wendy Alfredsen.​On December 8, 2009, Berlyn Alfredsen, then five-years-old, was taken out of class by one of her adoptive mothers to attend her great grandmother's funeral in Norway. This wouldn't have been notable, except Berlyn's great grandmother was still alive. Wendy Alfredsen, Berlyn's ... More >>