STOCKHOLM (AP) — A Swedish commission recommended Monday that international adoptions be stopped after an investigation found a series of abuses and fraud dating back decades. Sweden is the latest ...
HONG KONG (CNN) — In April 1999, Laura Blitzer — a 41-year-old single university professor — decided to adopt a child. Fifteen months later the native of Brooklyn, New York, was in Hunan Province, ...
Landscape is changing for international adoptions Some countries are closing doors to U.S. or focus on special needs kids Think tank urges more education and support for adoptive parents Because a ...
At least 242,000 foreign-born orphans have been adopted by American families since 1999. The result has been tens of thousands of new beginnings. And each year, thousands of American families continue ...
STOCKHOLM (AP) — A Swedish commission recommended Monday that international adoptions be stopped after an investigation found a series of abuses and fraud dating back decades. Sweden is the latest ...
Last year, for the first time since 1992, zero babies from China were adopted in the United States. International adoptions have collapsed across the board since their peak in 2004, when there were 23 ...
John McCollum is a co-founder and executive director of Asia’s Hope, a Columbus, Ohio-based nonprofit organization that provides family-style care for orphaned and abandoned children in Cambodia, ...
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — The number of international adoptions has plummeted to its lowest point in 15 years, a steep decline attributed largely to crackdowns against baby-selling, a sputtering world ...
A volunteer with a special needs student at Sacred Heart Convent School. Stricter criteria on international adoptions means more kids are left in institutions longer, which could be detrimental to ...