The birth mother of an Oregon boy missing for over a month said she believes the boy's stepmother planned his disappearance just as the boy was asking to move out of the stepmother's home. In a Tuesday interview with NBC's "Today" show, the birth mother ...

A Detroit-area woman who pleaded guilty to having sex with the biological son she gave up for adoption and later tracked down on the Internet has been sentenced to up to nine years in prison. Thirty-six-year-old Aimee L. Sword of Waterford ...

A California woman is facing the prospect of having to relinquish a little girl she has been trying to adopt while an Ohio court deals with the biological father's custody claim. Stacey Doss of Rancho Santa Margarita says a teleconference Friday between judges ...

Time was up, not 10 minutes into the visit. The social worker went to pull the 3-year-old orphan out of the arms of the woman he calls "Momma." The boy turned his face and dug his hands into her clothes. He kicked his legs. He screamed as they carried him away. Tamara Palinka covered her mouth to hold back the ...

Canadian authorities suspended adoptions from Nepal Friday over fraud and child trafficking concerns, the immigration ministry said. The ministry pointed to a report by the Hague Conference on Private International Law that described "strong evidence" on the prevalence of fraudulent documents and false statements about children's origins, age and status, as well as whether adoptees or potential adoptees were ...

The adopted children of Argentina's leading newspaper publisher defended their right not to know who their biological parents are, even as they prepared themselves for the possibility that DNA evidence will show they were taken as babies from victims of the dictatorship. In ...

Balia Kamara's mother sent her to a center in northern Sierra Leone so the 5-year-old could receive an education and food, and stay out of harm's way during the West African country's brutal civil war. The mother visited Balia at the Help A Needy Child International center, known as HANCI, regularly for two years until 1998, when ...

Three US senators on Wednesday unveiled a bill to clear away hurdles to citizenship for roughly 1,000 Haitian orphans whose adoptions by US parents were rushed because of a January earthquake. US and Haitian authorities cleared the children to join their adoptive parents after the disaster. But without the complete paperwork necessary to finalize their adoptions, a roadblock has ...

Officially, Haiti's international adoption process is back in business. Yet U.S. adoption agencies remain wary and uncertain, while families may face years of limbo as they seek to adopt children orphaned by the January earthquake. Some had been to Haiti and met children before the quake, others eagerly started from scratch afterward. "It's difficult to stay patient ...

An adoption agency says it's asking a court to launch an investigation to determine whether a Russian boy was abused, neglected or abandoned as a result of being sent back alone on a flight to Moscow by his U.S. adoptive mother. The Washington-based ...