When unconditional love fails to heal the pain of abandoned children

ON SEPTEMBER 10, 2001 in Moscow, Roxanne and Clarke Loper and their two -year-old daughter Alexandria posed for a photograph to mark the end of a three-week trip costing $25,000 to adopt the orphan from Kazakhstan.

When they got on the plane the following day, Alexandria wouldn't let Roxanne hold her or change her, so Clarke took charge instead.

Then, with the flight more than half-way across the Atlantic, the US shut down its airspace in response to that day's attacks on the twin towers and the Pentagon.