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The boy's family weeps as Jamie Varley, 36, appears in court charged with sexually assault and murder.

Rose Hill police release cause of child’s death and arrest her adoptive parents.

A not-boring intro to the adoption process

One child said she was spanked with a device called a “whacker” to the point of bleeding.

A Virginia appellate court ruled that a U.S. Marine should never have been granted an adoption of an Afghan war orphan and voided the custody order he’s relied on to raise the girl for nearly three years.

An Afghan couple who arrived in the U.S. as refugees are suing a U.S. Marine and his wife for allegedly abducting their baby.

Having met while working at a children's charity, Naomi and Martin believed that if any couple had the skills needed to provide an adopted child with the right mix of love, nurturing and guidance, it was them.

A woman who once worked for the Florida Department of Children and Families and was guardian ad-litem is accused of murdering her adopted daughter in ‘one of the worst crime scenes’ the Highlands County Sheriff has ever seen.

A 70-year-old South Korean woman sued her government, an adoption agency, and an orphanage Monday over the adoption of her daughter, who was sent to the United States in 1976, months after she was kidnapped at age 4. The damage suit filed by Han Tae-soon, whose story was part of an Associated Press investigation published last month, could ignite further debate on the dubious child-gathering practices and widespread falsification of paperwork that tarnished South Korea’s adoption program, which annually sent thousands of kids to the West during the 1970-80s. It was the first known case of a Korean birth parent suing for damages against the government and an adoption agency over the wrongful adoption of their child, said Kim Soo-jung, one of the lawyers representing Han.

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The South Korean government, Western countries and adoption agencies worked in tandem to satiate intense demand for adoptable babies in the West, despite years of evidence they were being procured through questionable or downright unscrupulous means, an investigation led by The Associated Press has

An adopted teen who was sent to Jamaica begged to come home after being abused but says his wealthy parents don't want him back.

Video provided by the sheriff's office appeared to show multiple times Bryan was abused, including being thrown into a pool with his hands tied behind his back.

The adoptive mother linked to the disappearance of two Fayetteville siblings is scheduled to appear in court Thursday. This comes one day after she was arres...

Patricia Saintizaire will remain in the Polk County Jail as she faces murder charges for the death of her adopted son, 4-year-old Bryan Boyer.FOX 13 Tampa Ba...

A 5-year-old boy died after being left in a hot car in Omaha, Nebraska, for about seven hours, authorities said.

Elene Deisadze was scrolling on TikTok in 2022 when she had to do a double-take. There was a girl, Anna Panchulidze, who looked just like her.

Hundreds of families who had babies taken from Spanish hospitals, such as Randy Ryder (pictured), are now battling for an official government investigation into the scandal.

Aisylu Chizhevskaya Mingalim, 53, from Tatarstan, shocked child welfare experts after marrying her 22-year-old adopted son, Daniel Chizhevsky.

"Was this why I could never shake that lonely gnawing in my belly when I was growing up? Was she the reason?"

Adoption is one of the few issues on which Americans of all political stripes seem to agree. According to the most recent ...

A 4-year-old boy is dead, and his mother is in jail on murder charges, accused of beating him to death.

When the local sheriff knocked on the family’s door... he found only empty rooms inside.

“I wouldn’t trade him for anything!” parenting vlogger Myka Stauffer said about her adoptive son two years ago in a post that doubled as an ad for laundry detergent.

"We have been trained to see adoption as a fairy-tale ending to a tragic story."

"The longer we waited, the more anxious I became. If we didn’t tell her soon, I feared it could do lasting damage to our family."

“As a child, I assumed my Koreanness just fell away like a snake shedding its skin. I thought, 'That must be what happens when you’re adopted.'”

"Was this why I could never shake that lonely gnawing in my belly when I was growing up? Was she the reason?"

"What do you say to your child that isn’t legally your child when he reaches out to you in need of something you aren’t sure you’re allowed to give him?"

"Now a mother myself, I often think about the emotions that must have swirled within my birth mother during her pregnancy."