Portugal expands adoption rights for gay couples
6 days ago
The 230-seat Parliament passed by five votes Friday the center-left Socialist Party's proposal permitting a person in a same-sex marriage to adopt a partner's biological or adopted child.
Make adoption more acceptable than abortion
7 days ago
But women routinely face family, friends and even healthcare providers who think that adoption equals abandonment, according to researchers and conversations with birth mothers.
Texan allegedly offered son for online adoption
8 days ago
A pregnant Houston-area woman has been charged with offering her 3-year-old son for adoption on Craigslist in an advertisement signed "Desperate."
Texas adoption agency cleared after boy's death
83 days ago
State authorities say they found no violations at a Fort Worth agency that processed a West Texas family's adoption of a Russian boy who later died.
Gladney Center for Adoption says state investigation is appropriate
85 days ago
"A separate investigation into Gladney is ongoing because of a Feb. 19 call made to the state agency's hotline suggesting that the parents may not have been properly screened for adoption.
US Supreme Court case considering Indian adoption
123 days ago
They were engaged in a protracted fight over the adoption of one of the children after the boy's relative challenged them in court, several months after the process was done.
Russia-US adoption ban Q&A
132 days ago
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Thursday: "We are very hopeful that we will be able to complete the cases of adoption that had been begun before the law was passed.
Court to review Native American adoption case
139 days ago
Court to review Native American adoption case
Russian parliament to mull anti-US adoption bill
149 days ago
Russian parliament to mull anti-US adoption bill
Proposed Russian ban dismays US adoption groups
153 days ago
Yet already it has added to an array of controversies and policy changes that have muddled the image of international adoption in the U.S.