This month's Adoptable Pet from Second Chance Animal Aid: more ›

The latest from Next Media Animation irreverently covers the increasing adoption of Chinese babies by American families. Worth it for images of Chinese babies phoning in toddler troops to totter through American streets with AK47s. Less funny is the snatching up of adopted children from two-child families in China, sadly actually a problem. more ›

The story of corrupt local officials in Hunan snatching children from poor rural families to sell to adoption agencies isn't a new one--the LA Times covered this story two years ago--but the issue is garnering far more attention after a recent in-depth investigative report from Caixin came out on the 9th of this month. In this video, an Al Jazeera reporter heads to Shaoyang, Hunan to interview families who've lost their children. more ›

A scandal involving family planning officials trafficking in newborns has just come to light in Hunan province. more ›

Name: Lily (pure white girl) and Milo (tabby and white boy) Age: Approximately 8 weeks old Health: Vaccinated, dewormed and de-flead Ideal Home: Gets along well with people and children more ›

This week's Adoptable Pet from Second Chance Animal Aid, Shanghaiist's favorite adopted animal charity. more ›

In a modern day version of Sophie's Choice, an American couple must leave their newly adopted Chinese daughter or risk losing their jobs in the U.S. should they remain with their daughter. more ›

Hundreds of parents set to the streets on April 15th in a peaceful march, begging for help in finding their missing children. Originally reported by the New Express (translated by Danwei), the parents claim that about 1,000 children have gone missing from the Dongguan area since 2007. At their wits end, they've set out to draw more attention to the apparent, widespread abduction problem. more ›

A Date With Lu Yu《鲁豫有约》is one of the most influential talkshows in China which has been known to constantly push the envelope and to broach topics previously considered too hot to touch. One such episode is the one below which features two homosexual men from the Sichuan Province — who, long before the word "gay" had entered the Chinese lexicon — married each other, adopted a son and have been together for 21 years. more ›

USA Today reports that adoption agencies across the United States, particularly the China-only agencies are experiencing a great surge in enquiries after thousands of children were orphaned by the Sichuan earthquake:

"There's lots of interest," says Joshua Zhong, co-founder of Chinese Children Adoption International, one of the largest China-only agencies in the USA. more ›

Selena Hsu of Current TV visits the Jiuzhou Stadium in Mianyang and discovers that while some parents have lost their children and everything else in life, they are more than willing to adopt someone else's child orphaned by the earthquake. [h/t to Danwei] more ›

We've all seen over the last week how the cruel earthquake has left parents without children and children without parents. As the focus now turns to healing and restoration for survivors and giving them tools with which to pick up the broken pieces of their lives, the government has now begun to disseminate information on active steps that concerned individuals considering adoption of children and babies orphaned by the disaster can take. Here is some English-language information we found on China Daily via People's Daily (the availability of which indicates they are open to foreigners adopting the earthquake orphans): more ›