Russia’s ban on US adoptions gets snarled in new melodrama
More than four years after it was imposed, Russia’s ban on adoptions by Americans is back in the news, rekindling frustration and sadness among some of those affected by it.
MS ban on adoption by same-sex couples blocked
A federal judge Thursday overturned Mississippi’s ban on allowing same-sex couples to adopt children.
Couples press for end to Miss. gay adoption ban
Four lesbian couples pressed a federal judge on Friday to overturn Mississippi’s last-in-the-nation ban on allowing same-sex couples to adopt, but lawyers for the state argued the lawsuit should be tossed out.
Our View: Miss. should not fight challenge to its ban on same-sex adoptions
Wednesday, the LGBT advocacy group Campaign for Southern Equality filed suit against the state of Mississippi challenging the state law that prohibits same-sex couples from adopting children.
Bipartisan bill seeks to boost foreign adoptions
Amid partisan conflict in Congress, dozens of lawmakers from both parties — including staunch liberals and conservatives — have united behind a bill that supporters say addresses a heart-rending issue beyond politics: the millions of foreign children languishing in orphanages or otherwise at risk because they have no immediate family.
Trying times for Christian adoption movement
To many Christian evangelicals, their commitment to finding homes for the world’s orphans is something to celebrate — and they will, gathering at hundreds of