Laura Hanford is a visiting fellow in The Heritage Foundation's Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family. Three hundred Chinese children matched with adoptive American families ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Like many of Chinese heritage, I feel a deep sense of humility when reading about ...

CUPERTINO, California -- In December 2019, Dianna Conboy and her husband from Centreville, Ohio, were matched to a little boy from China with anal atresia and other bodily malformations. He was ...

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 ...

Herbie Newell, the president and executive director of Lifeline Children’s Services — said the agency some U.S. families are using for their adoption — is cautiously hopeful that something can still ...

After China announced earlier this month that it is suspending international adoptions, Maze Felix, a 28-year-old Chinese adoptee, said they were struck with a heady mix of “anger, relief, grief, ...

Strict rules designed to protect children mean large numbers of would-be adopters are facing a near-impossible task The ...