Agnès Dherbeys returns to South Korea, from where she and many others were adopted, to meet some of those who were impelled to abandon their children.

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

Filmmaker Sun Hee Engelstoft is one of about 200,000 South Koreans to have been adopted overseas during the past six decades, mainly to white parents in America and Europe.

The uptick of unaccompanied migrant children at the border is a challenge for agencies having to rebuild gutted systems to shelter them

Here are some of the pros of international adoption.

Some Americans have unknowingly adopted Chinese babies taken from their parents and sold to orphanages. But can the Congress do anything about it?

Why are so many children with parents living in an orphanage? The biggest single cause is poverty, followed by limited access to basic services, such as education and health care. Most children in orphanages today have at least one living parent, who gave them up in the belief an orphanage offers a better life. They’re wrong.

Bethany Christian Services is phasing out its international adoption program and will focus instead on finding adoptive homes for children in their home countries.

In 2005, almost 46,000 children were adopted across borders. Ten years later, just 12,000 were. The foreign adoption system is imploding, potentially putting children’s lives in danger.

Uncovering the hidden realities of international adoption

Three Partners Offer a Solution on International Children’s Day

Tens of thousands of people who were legally adopted and raised in the U.S. by Americans lack the fundamental rights of citizenship.

A vibrant and provocative debut novel that dispels myth…

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The number of orphanages in developing nations has dramatically increased in the past decade, but where are the “orphans” coming from?

Reuters exposes the largely lawless marketplace of adopted children. Through Yahoo and Facebook groups, parents and others advertise unwanted children and then pass them to strangers.

Evangelical Americans believed adoption could save children in the developing world from poverty—and save their souls.

Tens of thousands of international adoptees in the United States, many of them of Korean descent, are under threat of potential deportation.

Mishandled forms, two felonies and immigration law send a 25-year-old back to the Thailand he left as a child.