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The California Supreme Court sided with grandparents and others who want to adopt children over their parents' objections in a pair of rulings that legal experts said would make it easier for guardians to prevail in adoption cases.

A Miami child welfare judge did an abrupt about-face Tuesday and granted a 61-year-old Orlando-area woman custody of her toddler great-grandson, agreeing with lawyers and caseworkers who argued that a person's age is not a factor in good parenting.

A northern Indiana woman has pleaded guilty to charges that she faked a pregnancy to bilk $2,500 from a New York couple hoping to adopt the child.

Because of misinformation provided to them by state officials, an Upshur County couple is alleging that one of their adoptive sons has continued a pattern of sexual abuse inflicted on him as an infant causing an unnecessary hardship on the family

It has been more than 20 years since the first large wave of transracial adoptions began to change the complexion of many families across the country. As these adopted children have come of age, they have become living case studies of the challenges, joys and sometimes pitfalls that can come with adoption across racial lines.

Murdered 10-year-old had been focus of contested adoption.

The story of 8-year-old Jayden, daughter of Patti Sawyer, will be followed by a crew from “Good Morning America” when she returns to her homeland of Western Samoa this summer for the first time after leaving in February 2005.

Kay woke up from a nap during the afternoon on Feb. 28 with a kitchen steak knife poking her neck.
Her 10-year-old son, Thomas, whom she adopted as a baby, was at the other end of the knife.
Monday, two days after the incident, Kay received a call from the Indiana Department of Child Services, or DCS, telling her, in effect, that she has to take him back. She's been told in the past that if she doesn't allow her son back into her home, she would be charged with child neglect or abandonment. And she would also be placed on a registry of child abusers, officially branding her a bad mother.

Like almost every aspect of life, adoption appears to be feeling the pinch of the financial downturn.
With jobs in jeopardy, some families are shying away from international and private domestic adoptions, which can cost upward of $30,000. So far, adoptions of children in state custody seem to be steady, if not growing, as couples search for affordable ways to grow their families.
Some agencies also are reporting an influx of birth mothers choosing to have their child adopted.

The complaint alleges woman had the couple sign a surrogate birth contract to disguise the crime.

We like to celebrate police and firefighters and, lately, airline captains as heroes. But my vote goes to all those who foster-parent or adopt older kids from the nation’s child welfare system. They are unsung American heroes whose stories are both inspiring and cautionary

Michigan’s child welfare system needlessly rips children from their parents and its bureaucracy keeps those families apart.

Birth mother tells birth father baby was stillborn; tells lawyer father was unknown; places baby with couple in state with no paternal rights laws.

After serving 10 years in prison, mother wants custody of her daughter returned from adoptive mother who has been accused of abuse.

Work transfer and pay cutback cause DSS to reclaim child after 11 months in home.

Adopting a child after the death of a bio-child.

A foster child with undiagnosed RAD?

Judge says "adoption orders are final" even if wrongly issued.

Sister can finally join her brother and family.

Aged out of the system, she always wanted a family.