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Russians Rally to Help US Adoption Mom Fighting for Child

"I'm just short of dying of heartbreak. You can quote that," Kendra Skaggs wrote in a short message to ABC News on Saturday evening. Earlier in the day she had been hopeful that her and her husband's adoption of a 5-year-old Russian orphan with spina bifida named Polina would be allowed to go through, despite a newly signed Russian ban on adoptions to the United States. Russian officials had said six adoption cases that received court approval before the ban went into effect on Jan. 1 would be...Full Story
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