Adoption

Responding to the letter on Tuesday, Oct. 7, "Gay adoption ban a moral must," it's difficult to know where to begin. There are undesirables in every group of people, and to think that every loving, committed, gay person falls into that category is...

Daunted by the stigma surrounding adoption here, Cho Joong Bae and Kim In Soon delayed expanding their family for years. When they finally did six years ago, Cho chose to tell his elderly parents that the child was the result of an affair, rather than...

Adelle Barsky-Moore is 5, and she doesn't know about wedge politics and the Culture War. All she knows is that she loves her two dads and they love her. Her parents, Allan Barsky and Greg Moore, have been together 10 years. They were married in Canada,...

By Tim Johnson MIANZHU, China — Four months after a massive earthquake upended this region of Sichuan province, child welfare officers scurry to sort out the fate of 532 orphan children. Countless couples have stepped forward to adopt a "quake...

Solomon Henderson inherited just three things from his birth parents, who left him at an Ethiopian orphanage when he was a year old: a picture of Jesus, a plastic crucifix and HIV. As one of about 14,000 Ethiopian children born with the virus every year,...

At the Neubecker residence in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood, David and Lee are Dad and Daddy, respectively, to a pair of foster siblings who sleep in pink princess and blue truck bedrooms, ride their bikes with helmets and always eat breakfast and...

The school year can bring all sorts of challenges. But for families formed through adoption or foster care, or for children being raised by a non-parent relative, the challenges often go beyond where to sit in the lunchroom. In fact, for students from...

No, the embarrassing law hasn't been overturned. Yet. Florida remains one of two states in the nation — Mississippi is the other — to ban gay adoption. But when a circuit judge in Monroe County ruled the 31-year-old ban unconstitutional, thus...

Solomon Henderson inherited just three things from his birth parents, who left him at an Ethiopian orphanage when he was 1 year old: a picture of Jesus, a plastic crucifix and HIV. As one of some 14,000 Ethiopian children born with the virus every year,...

A new school year brings all sorts of challenges: Will your child make friends? Is the teacher nice? What's the homework load like? Yet for families formed through adoption or foster care, or for children being raised by a non-parent relative, the...

LITTLE ROCK—A proposal aimed at effectively banning gays and lesbians from becoming foster or adoptive parents was cleared Monday to appear on this fall's ballot in Arkansas. The measure would prohibit unmarried couples living together from...

NEW YORK Advocates for gay and lesbian parents are denouncing Sen. John McCain, an adoptive father himself, for opposing adoptions by gays, which prompted his presidential campaign to clarify yesterday that he does not seek a federal ban on the practice....