My younger son is a friendly, affectionate 8-year-old who loves playing with his older brother, catching lizards and flying kites. But that wasn’t always the case. Five years ago, when we first ...

Authorities in communist China have continued a clampdown on Christian orphanages under the guise of enforcing new regulations on religious affairs, leaving thousands of poor and disadvantaged orphans ...

While some Brown students flocked to New York and other American cities over the summer, eight members of China Care Brown traveled to an orphanage in Weifang, China, where they worked long hours ...

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 ...

BEIJING (AP) — A fire that killed six children and one young adult at an illegally run orphanage in central China has prompted the suspensions of six local officials, a county government official said ...

It was, to some, a beautiful thing. In 1992, the Chinese Communist Party decided to send children abroad for adoption. Child abandonment had surged in the preceding decade because of a law that ...

Readers discuss a guest essay by a Chinese adoptee. To the Editor: Re “An Adoptee’s Lifelong Search for Home,” by Cindy Zhu Huijgen (Opinion guest essay, Sept. 16): When I read this article, I had ...

Nine years ago this holiday season, Andrew “Bobo” Speakman visited Northwest Indiana from an orphanage in China. The young boy was sponsored for a U.S. visit by Jill Terborg, a mother of two adopted ...