Adoptees and adoptive parents were calling on Fox TV to stop the broadcast of a game show called “Who's Your Daddy,” in which an adopted woman has to pick her biological father from a line-up; she wins a prize if she picks correctly.
Brigitte Bardot was extremely upset that the mayor of Bucharest, Romania, was killingstray dogs instead of putting them up for adoption as the aging actress had demanded; she accused the mayor of tyranny.
Italiansheepfarmers in the village of Abruzzo started an adoption program whereby people become parents of a sheep, which entitles one to a year's supply of merino wool and fresh cheese, and a photograph of the beast.