Till date, Pakistan has not been able to devise formal legislation on the practice of child adoption, despite the fact that a significant number of married couples are given temporary custody of ...

The government is facing a backlash for "slipping out" cuts to the amount that families can access for adopted children to have therapy. The Fair Access Limit (FAL) will be reduced from £5,000 to ...

The Bombay High Court has directed authorities to reconsider a Mumbai couple's adoption plea, emphasizing that having two disabled children should not preclude them from adopting a third ...

But learning about abuses in the adoption system makes him wonder if he does have some kind of obligation to reach out. He connects with a Brazilian mother—not his own—whose child was taken ...

A West Virginia couple convicted of the mistreatment of their adopted children, including locking some in a shed, received maximum sentences of decades in prison Wednesday for abusing their ...

A Miami-Dade registered nurse and foster mother accused of abusing her adopted daughters was found guilty Monday of first-degree murder and two counts of aggravated child abuse, nearly five years ...

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 ...

Michael and Shirley Gray were sentenced to life in prison after killing two of their adopted children, Sophie and Jonathan. ‘Pathetic’: McConnell Defies Republicans in Senate Vote How Much ...

Jonah Bevin was one of four Ethiopian children adopted by the Bevin family in 2012, three years before Matt Bevin was elected governor with a platform aimed at reforming the state's foster system.

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Data from the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA), which added 8,598 new children to the adoption pool, enabled this robust identification drive. CARA falls under the Ministry of Women and ...