STOCKHOLM -- A Swedish commission recommended Monday that international adoptions be stopped after an investigation found a series of abuses and fraud dating back decades. Sweden is the latest ...

In the last 60 years, over a million "orphans” have been adopted by Western families. Many of them are now discovering that ...

Last month, Sweden completed an inquiry that found evidence of fraud and child trafficking in international adoptions dating back as far as the 1970s.

Some countries have also restricted their own citizens’ ability to adopt children internationally. In December 2024, the Netherlands announced a plan to phase out adoptions from other countries by ...

South Korea is set to end the decades-old practice of outsourcing adoptions to private agencies, after a damaging investigation concluded the country’s government-endorsed foreign adoption programme ...