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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Boon Young Han, co-founder of the Danish Korean Rights Group, stands for a portrait at the offices of KoRoot, an advocacy organization for international adoptees from South Korea, on Thursday, March ...

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, ...

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 ...

SOUTH WEBER CITY, Utah — A South Weber family says they are breathing a sigh of relief after learning their international adoption is once again moving forward, following days of uncertainty caused by ...

China on Thursday said it would formally end most international adoptions, reflecting its drastic shift from grappling with a problem of overpopulation to one of declining birth rates. Tens of ...

For more than three decades, thousands of children — many of them thought to have been abandoned in China — were adopted to other countries. Over half found homes in the U.S. Then, in September, China ...

Lawmakers are urging the Trump administration to offer government exceptions for international adoption visas so that children can be united with their adoptive families and “welcomed into safe and ...

A presidential proclamation has halted international adoptions for numerous U.S. families by suspending visa issuance. The order, intended to protect national security, does not include a typical ...