Not long ago, the choices facing Robert and Julie Garrett would have been simpler. Once they set their hearts on adopting a child from China, the odds were high they could soon bring home a healthy infant girl.
It's different now.
Faced with a long wait _ and a smaller pool of healthy orphans available to foreigners _ the Garretts have decided after much soul-searching to adopt one of the special-needs children who now abound in China's orphanages.
"It's really hard, and we want to make the right choice," said Julie Garrett, of Gainesville, Ga.
The children's conditions range widely. Some are correctible, some not: cleft lips and …
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