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 ...

Kristin Finan looks on at her son, Joaquin Badgley-Finan, 4 during the adoption ceremony in Austin, Texas, on Thursday. At the event, 44 children celebrated Austin Adoption day with 30 new families ...

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 ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Denmark’s only overseas adoption agency said Tuesday that it is “winding down” its facilitation of international adoptions after a government agency raised concerns over ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — After years of delay, South Korea has ratified the Hague Adoption Convention, an international treaty meant to safeguard international adoptions, highlighting a significant ...

International adoptions to the United States have fallen to a record low, marking a 94 percent decline since their peak in the early 2000s. 2023 was the lowest year for international adoptions, ...

Yooree Kim marched into a police station in Paris and told an officer she wanted to report a crime. Forty years ago, she said, she was kidnapped from the other side of the world, and the French ...