The Chinese government is ending a program that allows international families to adopt children from the country this week. According to the Associated Press (AP), in a phone call with U.S. diplomats ...

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 ...

Laura Hanford is a Senior Policy Analyst in the Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Human Flourishing at The Heritage Foundation. Three hundred Chinese children matched with adoptive American families ...

On August 28, 2024, the People’s Republic of China announced the end of their intercountry adoption policy, and a small corner of the world stood still. Chinese transnational adoptees worldwide were ...

China paused its international adoption program at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Initially, when the shutdown began, the Chinese government told parents it would honor all matches made once ...

The decision has sent shockwaves through the adoption community and angered families still in the process of adopting children from China. We... China ends international adoption. Reactions range from ...