Switzerland plans to ban international adoptions after past scandals. Is this about child welfare or politics?

So, how much does adoption cost? First you should be aware of the five typical avenues for adoption in the United States: ...

As the story of her background emerged, so too did the cruel circumstances that led many Chinese couples to give up their children. International adoption is widespread in the US, with China the ...

Cherish Children Adoption International (CCAI), a premier Hague-accredited nonprofit, marks over three decades of helping orphaned children find loving homes. With expanded programs in Bulgaria ...

For the Federal Council, it is clear that there must be no more irregularities of this kind. For this reason, it commissioned an independent group of experts to examine whether and how a revision of ...

The decades-long one-child policy in China has not only left the legacy of an ageing population, but also a set of strict adoption laws that have denied large numbers of abandoned children the ...

Families have been formed by adoption for centuries; in recent years, psychologists have begun to investigate how adopted children and their adoptive families navigate their lives together.

The ban also comes in the wake of a damning report by experts saying financial gain, as opposed to rights and needs of children, was a key driver in the international adoption processes.