PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Anne-Marie Saintou walks with a megaphone along the dusty lanes of a Haitian fishing village, imploring people not to make the same mistake she did. “Ladies, say ‘NO!’ she ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. Department of State is strongly advising "prospective adoptive parents" to reconsider adoptions from Haiti, in part ...

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — At only 6 years old, Esai Reed has endured three emergency evacuations from orphanages across Haiti as gangs pillage and plunder their way through once peaceful communities. He ...

The debate over international adoption, already a bitter one, has intensified in the aftermath of Haiti’s earthquake and the arrest of 10 Americans for trying to take children out of the devastated ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Haiti is overhauling its adoption laws for the first time in nearly 40 years in an attempt to end practices that have allowed thousands of children to be trafficked out of the ...

The zeitgeist is wrong. Writers for the New York Times, Newsweek, others: all wrong. Anyone with the money, spiritual wherewithal, time, and vocation to adopt a child from Haiti should start now.

Haiti is one of the top 10 countries for adoptions and locally, there are many families waiting to get word on the safety of their children. Eugene and Amy Brownell of north Portland found out late ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Dozens of children are stuck in orphanages across Haiti, unable to leave the increasingly volatile country and start new lives with adoptive parents because a U.S. policy ...

The quota "does not even come close," to being sufficient for the many children who could be adopted but instead face a life in an orphanage, often in grim conditions, said Diana Boni, Haiti program ...

Civilian protesters and police have been marching through Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince to demonstrate against a slew of killings of police officers by armed gangs in worsening violence in the ...