China’s announcement in September that it was ending international adoptions was a crushing blow for families awaiting the arrival of their adopted children. The policy change has now left more than ...

For more than three decades, thousands of children — many of them thought to have been abandoned in China — were adopted to other countries. Over half found homes in the U.S. Then, in September, China ...

China announced last week it was ending its international adoption program, devastating hundreds of families in the U.S. in the process of adopting a child. "A lot of these families have persevered, ...

Laura Hanford is a Senior Policy Analyst in the Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Human Flourishing at The Heritage Foundation. Three hundred Chinese children matched with adoptive American families ...

Suspending international adoptions hurts children who already have waiting families. On September 4, the US state department informed adoption service providers and waiting families that the People’s ...

On Sept. 4, China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs announced that China would no longer carry out foreign adoption work, except for a few narrow exceptions. In turn, the U.S. Department of State notified ...

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The first night I met my former husband at a folk dancing party, I told him I wanted to adopt a baby from China. It wasn’t ...