GREAT FALLS, Montana — A pair of Darth Vaders strode up the aisle of the Cascade County District Courthouse in Great Falls last month to the opening drumbeats of the Imperial March. Where the prosecuting attorneys normally sit, twin lightsabers ...
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Americans stuck in Africa trying to bring adopted kids home 
Stranded in Nigeria for months, a Colorado couple had a rare chance to catch an evacuation flight to the U.S. recently during the coronavirus outbreak. But they refused because they would have had to leave behind their adopted daughter, who ...
Read More »US couple, adopted daughter caught in India coronavirus lockdown 
A Georgia couple who traveled to India to adopt a child have had to delay bringing their new daughter back to the United States after Indian authorities locked down the country because of the coronavirus. India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, ...
Read More »Panel backs suspension of assessor in Arizona adoption case 
PHOENIX — The discovery of thousands of files related to an Arizona elected official’s adoption business on a government laptop cemented a panel’s decision last month to uphold his suspension and push for his removal. Members of the Maricopa County ...
Read More »Judge: Michigan adoption agencies can turn away LGBT couples 
LANSING, Michigan — Religious-based adoption agencies that contract with the state of Michigan will be allowed to refuse to place children in LGBT homes under a preliminary injunction issued by a federal judge. District Judge Robert Jonker in Grand Rapids ...
Read More »Law governing adoptions of Native American children upheld by 5th Circuit 
NEW ORLEANS — A 1978 law giving preference to Native American families in foster care and adoption proceedings involving American Indian children is constitutional, a federal appeals court ruled Aug. 9, reversing a lower court judge in a case fraught ...
Read More »Grandmother deemed not a candidate for permanent placement of children 
RICHMOND, Virginia — A grandmother who violated child protective orders by allowing the parents to vacation with the children, and who, in the opinion of an evaluator, overestimated her ability to meet the demands of the growing children, was not ...
Read More »AP Investigation: Deported parents can lose custody of kids 
As the deportees were led off the plane onto the steamy San Salvador tarmac, an anguished Araceli Ramos Bonilla burst into tears burst into tears, her face contorted with pain: 'They want to steal my daughter!'
Read More »Italian gay rights debate prompts rethink of sacred family 
ROME — In Italy, family is considered so sacred that marriage is lauded in the Constitution. But what kind of family? That has become a bitterly divisive question in a nation where the Vatican packs considerable political weight and where ...
Read More »Arizona bill would toss adoption preference for heterosexual couples 
PHOENIX — Democrats in the Arizona Legislature want a law that requires judges to give preferences to married heterosexual couples in adoption stricken from the books. The legislation introduced in both the Senate and House removes current language giving preferences ...
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