please follow me on twitter @bonnieerbe. from healthcare to romance. more interracial couples are dating, but they're not getting married at the same rate as other couples. the census bureau reports interracial marriage has doubled since the year 2000. but mixed race couples still make up just 4% of marriages. researchers found mixed race couples are more likely to live together than marry. this could be due to family. how one views another race is passed down through generations. while younger people may have no problem with interracial dating or marriage, older generations are more resistant. racial boundaries have affected american society, and will continue to do so until color-blindness is blurred. just got married, is race a factor still for people your age and marriage? >> i think that this is much more of a cultural issue than it is a racial issue. if you look at the overall number of young people who are living together versus getting married or people generally, there -- the cdc shows that for women who are 18 to 44 that the majority of those

please follow me on twitter @bonnieerbe. from church doctrine to women's empowerment. as the u.n. kicks off its 68th system general assembly there's lots of speculation about a possible meeting of president obama and iran's new president. but our focus is how and why this will be a pivotal session for women. the session's theme is "the post-2015 development agenda." so next week member countries, ngos and philanthropists will try to design a way to meet the global needs of women and children in such areas as healthcare, gender equality, education and hiv/aids. they'll also brainstorm strategies to maximize contributions women and teens can make towards those development goals. congresswoman norton, the whole world's focus will be on whether the president meets with his counter part from iran and what is going on in syria, there are huge events going on around women development goals, gender equality and government and end eradication of poverty. should those things be more of a focus and getting more attention? >> well, this deadline of 2015 that has been put on issues of this kin

please follow me on twitter @bonnieerbe. from rape to adoption. an investigation this week by nbc news and reuters reveals a sordid but apparently growing practice of adoptive parents using the internet to re-home children they've adopted in the u.s. but more often overseas whom they regret adopting. yes, we said "re-homing,"--a term usually used by pet owners seeking new homes for their pets. the investigation found there is little if any oversight and many times children are left with abusive adults who use the adoption as a way to claim tax deductions or other government benefits. the adoptive parents say without post-adoption services this is their only way out of a bad situation. some of the website groups, on yahoo for example, have been taken down, but not all of them. so, maria teresa kumar, how can you adopt a child from a foreign country, some of them were u.s. adoptions, and then just pass it off when the adoption doesn't work out? >> not only pass it off but pass off under the radar without any government oversight. of what happens to