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In July 2011, my husband and I traveled to a Russian orphanage to meet a 2-year-old girl. We petitioned the Russian courts to adopt her, and waited 14 agonizing months to be granted a court date, all along fearing we would never be able to bring her home.

China does not permit surrogate parenting, but that country's rising affluence has given many couples the option of using U.S. surrogacy clinics. Americans have long gone to China to adopt babies.

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.

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....

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.