Having grown up in households with opposite-sex siblings, my wife and I naturally wanted a boy and a girl in our own family. With our first two pregnancies, we took care of the male part of that equation. Our sons, now 5 and 2, fill our lives with gobs and gobs of joy and run us ragged in......

Travel the path to international adoption, and you will know something of privacy invasion. "Officials'' guarding parenthood's gate probe everything from checkbook balances to faith perspectives to health histories. The lengthy and emotionally draining process strengthens resol......

Shawn and Renee Reinfried of Lititz brought 6-month-old Samuel home from Guatemala in mid-March.Shortly after, they were followed by Greg and Melissa Shumante of Reading, who brought home their 11-month-old daughter, Carmen.Samuel and Carmen are among the last of the Guatemalan chil......

Local adoption workers are cautiously hopeful, yet concerned, as they wait to see what the long-term impact of the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-Operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption will be.The international agreement that establishes norms and mandates safegua......

On April 1, the rules for international adoption in the United States changed.The United States now abides by the provisions of the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-Operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption, an agreement signed by more than 70 countries since 1993.......