About 60% of recent adoptions from China are of kids with special needs, he adds. The latest data from the U.S. State Department documents a rising number of older kids in international adoptions.

According to the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, adopting a child can cost as much as $50,000. Raising a special needs child includes many costs other parents don’t have, such as pediatric ...

In 2020-21, a total of 3,559 adoptions were recorded including 3,142 in-country and 417 inter-country. Only 110 boys and 133 girls with special needs were adopted in this year.

I am a CPA and a mom via adoption times two. I was baffled to read in the April 2010 article “Tax Treatment of Adoption Expenses” (page 44) that adoptive parents “may want to give more consideration ...

Special-needs adoptions. Starting in the early 1990s, and as recently as a few years ago, the large majority of Chinese children adopted by foreigners were healthy baby girls abandoned by their ...

She was 3 months old at the time of her adoption, having been abandoned by parents who wanted a child, but not one with special needs. Twins Eli and Ellie are from Uganda, born to a mother who was ...

The adoption came at the end of a dark period for the family, following a miscarriage, the deaths of Corbett’s parents and Syrus’ unexpected diagnosis of Down syndrome. But after a period of grieving ...

With two teenage boys and full-time jobs, Ann and Dave Enzman had a busy life. Deep down, however, they felt something was missing. "It had always been a hope of mine to have a family that ...

Adopting a healthy child can put a huge dent into your bank account. If you adopt a special needs child, you add a lifetime of medical bills. Fortunately, help is available. In the last decade, man… ...

NEW YORK Not long ago, the choices facing Robert and Julie Garrett would have been simpler. Once they set their hearts on adopting a child from China, the odds were high they could soon bring home ...