The debate over international adoption, already a bitter one, has intensified in the aftermath of Haiti's earthquake and the arrest of 10 Americans for trying to take children out of the devastated country without permission. Some groups are urging a long moratorium on new adoptions from Haiti, saying there is too much chaos and too high a risk of ...

Activists in Florida say they are optimistic about an imminent gay adoption ruling.

The case involves Martin Gill, a 47-year-old flight attendant who has been fighting for the right to adopt two foster children he and his partner have been raising for the past five years.

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Enveloped in his new mother's embrace, 4-year-old Jersen Silvester Eefting gazed wide-eyed around a hotel lobby at the end of an 11-hour flight that whisked him from the devastation of Haiti to his new home in the Netherlands. "It feels magnificent," said Roel Eefting as he videoed the newly adopted son he had met minutes earlier. Jersen was one ...

Tammy Gage cries every time she turns on the TV and sees the devastation in Haiti. And though she already has three daughters, she didn't hesitate when her husband suggested that they adopt from Haiti. "That's all he needed to say," she said. Gage and her ...