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.

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.

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.

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

“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.

There could be a new princess in Disney’s royal court.

Princess Sarah Culberson discoved her royal roots after hiring an private investigator and searching for her birth father.

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When Hugh Jackman and Deborra-lee Furness adopted 
a baby boy from 
a rural American family – who 
was born almost 20 years 
ago to the day amid tragic circumstances – they knew 
they faced a lifelong, incredibly emotional journey. And now that Oscar is 18, he's decided to reunite with his birth family.

Orsa Moldauer remembers watching her son Yul on the playground after school. Then 7 years old, Yul and a group of his friends took turns going across a set of monkey bars.

Swimmer Margaret MacNeil won the 100-meter butterfly final ahead of China's Zhang Yufei.

No one expected a gay, single man to become a father. But Jerry Windle's dreams came true when he adopted Jordan.

Filmmaker Elizabeth Jacobs, 21, will revisit the claim that 'poor Cambodian families are preyed on by baby recruiters' in her documentary, The Stolen Children

Myka and James Stauffer adopted a toddler from China and shared every step of the process with their online audience. Except the last.

Myka Stauffer built her YouTube following partly by sharing every step of her journey to adopt a toddler from China. This week, she revealed why he’d gone missing from her videos.

His adopted son’s biological grandpa is pleading with the actor.

Agencies have become too focused on profitable overseas adoptions, while vulnerable children are being commodified, critics say.