When I was back in Yogya in late November, I had the opportunity to have dinner with Ria, my language teacher from August. She is the one who did the short language lesson posted here. Anyhow, she and her husband had recently adopted a baby girl. They have had tried to have babies of their own for a long time but have been able to. They have also been waiting to adopt for a very long time because the law here requires that the religion of the adoptive parents be the same as the birth parents. The wish is for the child to grow up in the same religion they would have if their birth parents had been able to keep them.
The baby is called Tata. She was one and half months old at the time and I was very pleased to be able to hold her. Her mom shot the video. At the end the video shows her father. I have the parent’s permission to share this video with you all.
They brought along their daytime "nanny" who they pay the locally high rate of about $50 a month.
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