Articles about Adoptions: NYTimes | Huggins Family Law | Orange County Divorce Attorney and Child Custody Lawyer Robin C. Huggins

Articles about Adoptions: NYTimes | Huggins Family Law | Orange County Divorce Attorney and Child Custody Lawyer Robin C. Huggins

Articles about Adoptions: NYTimes

Articles about Adoptions: NYTimes
Posted on : February 28, 2008
With DNA Testing, Adoptees Find a Way to Connect With Family
When access to adoption records is blocked, people have another avenue for finding clues to their ancestry and connections to blood relatives. ...»

Settlement Proposed in Adoption Abuse Case
Lawyers for 10 disabled children who were fraudulently adopted by a Queens woman have proposed a $68 million settlement in a civil rights lawsuit filed on their clients’ behalf. ...»

Failed Adoptions Create More Homeless Youths
Failed adoptions, in which families abandon children when they turn 18, are on the rise, and so is the number of young people among the homeless. ...»

Bishops Say Rules on Gay Parents Limit Freedom of Religion
Roman Catholic bishops see a fight over adoption rules in Illinois as part of an escalating campaign by the government to trample on their religious freedom. ...»

BUCKS; I.R.S. Denied A Tax Credit
Bucks blog discusses impact of the Internal Revenue Service adoption tax credit on same-sex couples. ...»

Russia Angry at Penalty Against Dead Adopted Boy’s Parents
Officials are furious over the sentence in the manslaughter case of a Pennsylvania couple who adopted a 7-year-old son from Russia. ...»

Analyzing Steve Jobs
A reader says Steve Jobs’s bad behavior had nothing to do with being adopted. ...»

Adoption Is Not a Laughing Matter for Anyone
A reader responds to an Op-Ed by James Collins on Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg. ...»

Mea (Totally Sincere, if Overdue) Culpa
A long-lost father resurfaces. Or does he? ...»

China Fires 12 Government Workers in Adoption Scandal
Investigators concluded that workers did not engage in “baby trading,” but they found “severe violations,” a newspaper reported. ...»

10 Years of Hope, Trying to Save Abandoned Newborns
An Illinois law creating safe havens for mothers to abandon their newborns has been credited with saving lives. ...»

Adoptions From China: Seeking the Truth
Readers respond to a recent article about adoptive families trying to find out the histories of their Chinese children. ...»

China’s Adoption Scandal Sends Chills Through Families in U.S.
Reports of baby-selling in China have prompted parents in the United States to wonder whether their children were really abandoned. ...»

New Look at City Lapses in Adoption Abuse Case
An investigation more than 30 years ago did nothing to prevent Judith Leekin from carrying out one of the most brazen and disturbing child welfare schemes in recent memory. ...»

Officials in China Seized Infants for Black Market, Parents Say
At least 16 babies were taken by family planning officials in Hunan Province between 1999 and 2006; parents say children were a revenue source for local government, which imposed fines on parents for small infractions before taking the babies; an official inquiry, prompted by an intrepid Chinese magazine, appears to be a whitewash, with authorities punishing those who have spoken out rather than helping them trace and recover their children; news of the scandal raises questions about adoptions ... ...»