Parents with kids diagnosed with ADHD may find some help in a new guide to ADHD drugs released this week by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the American Psychiatric Association.

Soleil Gregg of the advocacy group Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, says, "I think this guide provides some very balanced information about risks, benefits and how to judge what is best for your child ... whether that includes drug treatment or not."

The guide addresses parental concerns like risk of addiction, side effects both common and rare, and offers tips on how to get help from schools.

Not that every foster parent doesn't already know this, but now it's official: payments to foster parents don't cover the costs of care.

This report from USA today includes a state-by-state table that shows the gap between what is needed to care for healthy foster kids and what is paid, and the difference is significant.

The report, citing the wide range of state payments, recommends a uniform rate that can be adjusted to account for varying costs of living. Its proposed rate is based on expenses reported by middle-income families in a Labor Department survey, plus a 22% increase for extra food and other things needed by foster kids who may have been malnourished or abused.

Saying that money is "not the issue", but is a "major factor" in getting middle and low income foster parents to sign up and stay involved, the shortfall is indicated as a contributing factor to the great numbers of children that end up in group homes or institutions.

In another report released the National Council for Adoption states that 22% of kids in foster care nationally are eligible for adoption, but that only 1.3% of federal children's welfare funds go toward helping these kids into families.

An amazing story of reunion is in the news today, and a tale of coincidence and happy endings it is.

It's good to be reminded that adoption often does result in win/win situations, or actually more win/win/win, and this is one of those cases where all the lives involved experienced positives.

Yes, I'm sure there has been sorrow, and there certainly was loss, but the outcome, especially for the child at the center who is now a twenty-five-year-old woman so ostensibly the primary focus all along, has been a wonderful, happy, loved and loving life.

This story is reported to be airing on 20/20 on Friday night in the real world.

And another happy ending, this time for a mom and dad in Austria whose 10-month-old locked them on a balcony, then proceeded to have a grand time.

The couple somehow managed to get someone to call the fired department to forced the door open, although why they couldn't just get a key, come in the front door and open the balcony door from the inside is not explained. It also doesn't say how long they were out there.

Good thing this didn't happen at night ... in winter.

Lesson to be learned: Watch your back when there's a toddler in the house!