China has officially banned foreign adoptions of its children, ending a practice that has been in place for more than three decades. This decision comes at a time of shifting demographics and ...
Her imagination is her escape from reality." That escape opens further when a beautiful piano is donated to the orphanage. Perlina banishes it to the basement in a moral paroxysm, but when Teresa ...
Over 16 years, a Christian nonprofit moved dozens of Cambodian orphans out of institutions and into local families. In 2008, Keo Ravy and Amy Sullivan of Children in Families (CIF) drove to an ...
KUALA LUMPUR: Police have revealed various forms of abuse experienced by children and teenagers rescued in a recent operation, Op Global, which targeted 20 orphanages around Selangor and Negeri ...
In an impoverished orphanage in Sierra Leone, she longed to dance ballet. After being adopted by American parents, her improbable dream came true. By Alex Traub Michaela DePrince, an acclaimed ...
Ballet dancer Michaela Mabinty DePrince, who was raised in an orphanage in war-torn Sierra Leone, is being remembered as "a beautiful person, a wonderful dancer" after dying aged 29. DePrince was ...
An 87-year-old woman who was adopted from a Dublin orphanage has finally solved her family mystery. Gladys Johnston was brought to live in the Scottish Highlands when she was just three-years-old ...
(Photo: Chenna Leinders) SINGAPORE: Ms Chenna Leinders, or Yang Dihuang, was adopted from an orphanage in China’s Hubei province in 2000 when she was just a year and a half old. “Being adopted ...
A Pennsylvania community is up in arms over reports that as many as 1,000 migrants were to be and reportedly still could be housed in a Civil War-era orphanage most recently used as a summer camp ...
Residents of one Pennsylvania county are in an uproar over potential plans to use a former school for Civil War orphans to house migrants. The Scotland School for Veterans’ Children was opened ...
(Just over half of those went to America.) For much of that time, Chinese orphanages were full as a result of the state’s population-control measures. Under the one-child policy, in place from ...