Far be it from me to cast the first stone, but if I were the Queen of the World, one of my first royal acts would be to get the baby girl known as "Dannielynn" into a loving adoptive home, followed in short order by the Federline boys.

Across America, this might have been just another autumn Saturday, but in west Texas, today, a miracle took place, one that was six decades in the making.

Because it was 63 years ago that a frightened young woman made a loving adoption plan for a baby she'd carried in secret but could not parent.

Today, Allison Quets pled guilty to international kidnapping. In case you can't place her, she was the 49-year-old mother who had placed twins (conceived intentionally, through in-vitro) then took them to Canada over Christmas-- without their adopting parents' consent.

In Texas last week, the media carried far and wide the kind of story that makes all of us in the adoption community shudder and cringe.

A licensed vocational nurse with five biological kids was convicted in Corpus Christi, for murdering a four-year-old child she and her husband were preparing to adopt through CPS (by way of Spaulding).