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Census data revealed the percentage of same-sex parents with adopted children has risen sharply, but legal challenges in many states leave the children without equal rights and protections.

Oprah Winfrey recently learned she has a half-sister - a Milwaukee woman who was put up for adoption by Winfrey's mother nearly 50 years ago....

State Department officials will travel to Russia to urge continued adoptions by U.S. families. The trip comes after a U.S. family sent an adopted boy back to Russia alone.

A top Russian official urged Friday that all child adoptions by U.S. families be frozen after a woman from Tennessee put her 7-year-old adopted Russian grandson alone on a one-way flight back to his homeland....

Jessica Alba thinks four would be fantastic.

Seven suspects plead not guilty to first-degree murder charges in the slaying of a Florida couple who adopted 13 children, many with special needs.

Malawi's highest court said Friday that Madonna could adopt a second child from the southern African country.

For years, Candace Eloph searched for her half-brother, who was given up for adoption in 1977.

An official of the Malawi government has backed Madonna's bid to adopt a second child from the African country.

A British children's charity has urged Madonna to rethink her planned adoption of a Malawian baby girl as the singer was reportedly due in the east African country to take custody of a four-year-old child.