As rich-world adoption has plummeted, demand for surrogacy has grown. It has also been fuelled by rising infertility, an ...

The Indian government, which has historically been opposed to crypto, is reviewing its regulatory policy in response to ...

The country’s government employed an independent group of experts who concluded that  “even well-crafted adoption laws cannot ...

The Hague Convention, which governs international adoption, and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child ...

Switzerland's government said on Wednesday it planned to ban international adoptions due to concerns about abuses in the practice.

Switzerland plans to ban international adoptions to prevent abuse, citing an expert report. While the number of such ...

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Last September, the Chinese Communist Party announced a ban on all international adoptions – except for blood relatives or stepparents – a reversal of more than 30 years of policy. Since 1992 ...

For example, the South Korean government reduced funding for social welfare systems for unmarried mothers and poor families and instead promoted large-scale international adoptions until the 1980s.

For the Federal Council, it is clear that there must be no more irregularities of this kind. For this reason, it commissioned an independent group of experts to examine whether and how a revision of ...