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Tennessee's Adoption Outrage

A local sheriff says it isn't clear that the woman who sent her troubled adopted child back to Russia broke any laws. Catherine Arnst on why that's an insult to parents everywhere.

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My 11-year-old daughter has been pretty difficult lately. She throws tantrums, she tells me I’m ruining her life, she doesn’t do her chores, she’s broken three cellphones.

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