Halted foreign adoptions leave would-be parents in limbo The crackdown comes amid reports that some in Guatemala coerce mothers to relinquish their children for adoption -- or steal the children outright and present them as orphans. Similar accusations have arisen in Vietnam. After the United States...

Senior judges have attacked the "disgraceful" conduct of East Sussex social services over the adoption of a child against the wishes of her father. Full story on BBC Ouch. The father didn't know he had a child, and was in hospital with a heart attack when the legal gubbins was first occuring that...

As people who read my Vox may know, I am adopted. In March 1967 a girl was born at a Salvation Army maternity hospital in Sydeny, Australia and given the name Joy. Three months later Joy was adopted by a Australian/British couple and re-named. It was based on Joy's middle name, and the nick-name of...