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 ...

Adoption visas are not guaranteed’ amid a travel freeze, said lawmakers who have asked the State Department to restore a ‘categorical exemption for adoption visas.’ ...

The author says Presidential Proclamation 10998 views children who are about to be adopted by American parents as security ...

FILE - Anna Singer, a Swedish expert leading the country's investigation into its international adoption practices, speaks during an interview in Seoul, South Korea, March 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Ahn ...

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, ...

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 ...

FILE - Sculptures are seen atop the Constitutional Court building near the Quirinale presidential palace in Rome, on Saturday, April 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File) ROME (AP) — Italy’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

STOCKHOLM — 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 country ...