The Use of Poison Gases in the First World War
Overview
It is estimated that there were a million casualties from the use of poison gases in the First World War. Official figures list 180,983 British ...
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Guatemala has ratified an international adoption treaty, committing to bring adoptions under government regulation and make sure babies are not bought or stolen.Guatemalan law currently allows nota...
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Amsterdam (dpa) - Three years ago, Dutch national Hans's life was
one of turmoil as he, his children and ex-wife living in Canada were
entangled in a messy child custody wra...
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A divorced woman may move to Japan with her daughter over the wishes of the child's father, even though he fears Japanese law won't allow him to enforce visitation orders, the New Jersey Supreme Co...
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Guatemalan police rescued a two-month-old boy who had been stolen from his home and arrested four people who were allegedly preparing the baby for illegal adoption, an official said.The rescue come...
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Citing rampant problems of fraud and extortion, the State Department says it no longer recommends that Americans adopt children from Guatemala _ the No. 2 source of orphans coming to the United Sta...
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Guatemalan legislators approved a new law Tuesday that tightens adoptions, while allowing pending cases — mostly involving U.S. couples — to go through without meeting stricter requirem...
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Amsterdam (dpa) - An international child support convention that
will enter its final stages of negotiation on Monday is intended to
ease the plight of single parents and th...
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Amsterdam (dpa) - Problems such as the placing in care of an
eight-year-old girl adopted by a Dutch diplomat based in Hong Kong
can stem from the original adoption procedure...
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After tripling over the past 15 years, the number of foreign children adopted by Americans dropped sharply in 2006, the result of multiple factors which have jolted adoption advocates and prompted ...
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Deb Myers and her husband, Peter, are expecting their fifth child this month, a young girl they are adopting from China. They already have three biological children and a son adopted from India."A ...
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