FARGO — After more than five years filled with paperwork, visits and decisions, Richard and Tracy Pfeiffer are just one step away from bringing home their adoptive son from China. All they need is to ...

On August 28, 2024, the People’s Republic of China announced the end of their intercountry adoption policy, and a small corner of the world stood still. Chinese transnational adoptees worldwide were ...

For more than three decades, thousands of children — many of them thought to have been abandoned in China — were adopted to other countries. Over half found homes in the U.S. Then, in September, China ...

The news that China is ending intercountry adoptions resulted in a flood of media coverage, most of which missed the crux of the issue. The decision will result in more children with medical special ...

The decision shocked dozens of evangelical families in the US who had been in the process since before the pandemic. The Chinese government has officially ended its international adoption program, ...

China has banned transnational adoption, ending more-than three decades during which more than 160,000 children were adopted abroad. Adoptees say they have conflicted feelings about the ban. When ...

China paused its international adoption program at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Initially, when the shutdown began, the Chinese government told parents it would honor all matches made once ...

Readers discuss a guest essay by a Chinese adoptee. To the Editor: Re “An Adoptee’s Lifelong Search for Home,” by Cindy Zhu Huijgen (Opinion guest essay, Sept. 16): When I read this article, I had ...