This picture screams: inter- national adoption is a great option.

For people who aren't sure they could ever bond as deeply with an adopted child as they would with their own.

For people who worry that children will never be at home in a foreign country the way they would be where they were born and with people of the same skin color.

Arnstein says, 'As a teacher in Norway, I work with many families -- and we all have the same problems. Children need to be cared for in a family, so that when you tell them "no" as a teenager, it is the same person who told them "the stove is hot" when they were little.'

Aud Berit said it was even difficult to come to terms with having a birth-child when Daniel was born after adopting three from the little children's home. 'I kept thinking, we should be going to the Philippines to pick up our child.'

Jonas (17 and 1/2, he tells you firmly), Jostein (16), and Maria (12) are here for their first return-visit to the Philippines after they were adopted as babies. They are soaking up the images, climate, friendliness, and flavors of the place where they were born. But they are so thoroughly Norwegian, so thoroughly family--I just can't help sharing with you our joy in what God has done.