China ended its international adoption program in September, leaving families in the middle of applications in limbo.

From the 1960s through the 1980s in Chile, about 20,000 babies were stolen from their mothers and placed in adoptions outside the country. The mothers were young and poor. Some were indigenous. They were lied to, often being told their babies died at birth.

The horrors of Romania's orphanages shocked the world after communism collapsed in 1989, when images emerged of emaciated children living in wretched conditions. Today, some of those adopted by families abroad are returning to Romania for answers and justice.

Western governments ignored widespread fraud in South Korean adoptions and sometimes pressured the country to keep the kids coming, an investigation led by The Associated Press has found.

An exclusive investigation uncovers how State Department officials uncovered systemic corruption in the Vietnamese adoption system -- and how they struggled to do something about…

Despite its name, the Always Hope Adoption Agency seemed cursed. One of the operation’s moms-to-be and her prenatal child were shot dead. A surprisingly high number of pregnant women miscarried. Th…

In the age of 'Instagram adoptions', sophisticated con artists are defrauding prospective parents of large sums of money

"It’s like you’re mourning a child you’ve never met."

Revealed: Members of alleged illegal adoption gang that sold babies to Italy keep high-profile jobs despite charges