Michigan is illegally allowing faith-based groups to reject same-sex couples who want to adopt children or become foster parents, the American Civil Liberties said Wednesday in a lawsuit challenging the practice. Groups such as Catholic Charities and Bethany Christian Services are paid by the state ...
The young woman labored up the steps, past brightly decorated walls akin to a child's nursery, her daughter in her arms. Opening a hatch in the wall, she put the child inside, turned around and walked away. She ran her hands over her head but ...
French same-sex couples with children born to foreign surrogate mothers won a key victory Wednesday, with the country's highest appeals court ruling that the partner of the biological father could adopt his child. Surrogacy, when a woman carries a child for a couple that cannot ...
Japan’s shelters for neglected children are known for their suffocating discipline, but no one has come up with a good way to reform them in the past 70 years.
From a baby expected to be born in October in Osaka Prefecture to one in Tokyo with a due date in July, information of upcoming childbirths is listed on a website run by an Osaka-based nonprofit adoption agency urging prospective parents-to-be to register online. Named ...
Osaka becomes the first city in the nation to officially let a gay couple take on the role of foster parents.
The first such arrests in Japan come as the central and local governments are introducing stricter rules to prevent entities from exploiting the adoption system.
Confronted with hard questions about why they felt the need to adopt, the O'Briens chose to raise Sam, a child with Down syndrome.
Nearly 300 orphans in Japan could not be put up for adoption over the past two years because their parents’ consent could not be obtained, the welfare ministry says.
A former doctor will stand trial in Madrid for allegedly stealing a newborn from her mother and giving her to another woman, a practice thought to have affected thousands of families during Spain's dictatorship. In a court document obtained by AFP on Tuesday, a judge ...
Revisions to the inheritance tax went into effect in 2015, and related statistics for that year were recently made public by the National Tax Agency. The main change had to do with the basic deduction. Before 2015 the deduction equaled ¥50 million plus ¥10 million ...
The national news has recently reported a number of stories about young children dying at the hands of their parents or guardians, either from neglect or direct physical violence. It's hard to say if these tragedies constitute a trend since detailed child abuse statistics ...
