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Saturday-morning cartoon shows have featured characters representing Yogi Bear when he was a teen and Roseanne as a little girl. Next February, George Lucas will bring Young Indiana Jones to TV. Look out for a backlash among children tired of hand-me-down heroes...
NATION: Confirmation Backlash...
...along with joy and hope, the surge of overseas parenting has created a backlash. Side by side with legitimate avenues of adoption, gray and black markets have sprung up where Third World brokers obtain children for foreign clients under questionable circumstances. From Manila to San Salvador, Bucharest to Brasilia, baby-sale scandals have caused Third World countries to tighten procedures and, in some cases, halt foreign adoption. Other countries are curtailing foreign adoptions to protect their image. Prosperous South Korea, which has sent nearly 120,000 abandoned children overseas since the Korean War, now considers foreign adoption applications only...
...just some guy grabbing you and pushing you in a closet and saying, 'If you don't let me fondle you, I'm going to fire you,' " explains Susan Faludi, author of a new book, Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women. "It's more the subtler form of making women uncomfortable by turning the workplace into a locker room and then telling them, 'What's the matter, you can't handle it? You wanted equality; I'm going to give it to you with a vengeance...