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

B ill Jones quietly became a gay parent at San Francisco City Hall on February 13, 1969, the first documented American case ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

MINISTER of Human Services and Social Security, Dr. Vindhya Persaud has announced plans to introduce a new ‘Protection of Children International Measures’ ...

Facing societal pressures, she adopted two children, Nikhil and Nancy, from her husband’s elder brother in 2013 through a registered adoption deed. Seeking to secure educational benefits for them ...

Four decades after they were cruelly forced apart, US-raised Adamary Garcia and her birth mother fell into each other's arms ...

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 ...

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.

Hoping to offer a rare in-depth look into how placing children for adoption impacts the lives of Indigenous birth mothers, a group of researchers is continuing efforts to document the experiences of ...