Logistical challenges and potentially bitter disputes lie ahead as passionate advocates of adoption press for changes that might enable thousands of Haitian children affected by the earthquake to be placed in U.S. homes. The obstacles are daunting, starting with a need to register Haiti's dislocated children ...

Rajan Kumar Nepali did not know he was giving up his two young children when he put his thumbprint on a document handing custody to an orphanage in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu. The owners of the children's home had promised to take care of his son and daughter while the 28-year-old labourer, who cannot read or write, tried to ...

Rajan Kumar Nepali did not know he was giving up his two young children when he put his thumbprint on a document handing custody to an orphanage in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu. The owners of the children's home had promised to take care of his son and daughter while the 28-year-old labourer, who cannot read or write, tried to ...

Tammy Gage cries every time she turns on the TV and sees the devastation in Haiti. And though she already has three daughters, she didn't hesitate when her husband suggested that they adopt from Haiti. "That's all he needed to say," she said. Gage and her ...

Nepal has begun accepting applications from foreigners who want to adopt Nepalese children, 18 months after the practice was stopped because of widespread malpractice, officials said Friday. Adoptions were suspended after reports that foreigners paid up to 20,000 dollars to adopt children, most of whom were not genuine orphans and some of whom were taken overseas without their parent ...