Jessica Harris was a 24-year-old single mom and newly sober when she became pregnant in 2019. At the time, Harris and her toddler son Tristan were living in a one-bedroom apartment in Minnesota, and ...

In Daughters of the Bamboo Grove, the journalist profiles twins separated as toddlers by China’s one-child policy and examines America’s demand for international adoptees. How brutally was China’s one ...

The judge wanted everyone in the courtroom to know that when he’d signed a war orphan over to an American Marine he thought it was an emergency — that the child injured on the battlefield in ...

A South Korean commission has accused successive governments of committing widespread human rights violations by enabling mass overseas adoption of at least 170,000 children, often through fraudulent ...

CUPERTINO, California -- In December 2019, Dianna Conboy and her husband from Centreville, Ohio, were matched to a little boy from China with anal atresia and other bodily malformations. He was ...

Beijing said the move was in line with international trends, as more countries have limited such adoptions. Many would-be adoptive families were left in limbo. By Alexandra Stevenson and Zixu Wang ...

WHEN SHAKIR MOHAMED and his male partner wanted to start a family in London, they looked to adopt a child. But faced with a laborious process and long waiting times, they instead turned to surrogacy.

When a Ukrainian children’s home director took the minors in her care to Italy after Russia invaded, she had no idea their ...

A South Korea commission said the government should issue an official state apology for violating the rights of children adopted overseas, acknowledging that the country over decades allowed ...