adoption
Report: State Rep. Gave His "Possessed" Kids Away to a Child Molester
Gabrielle Bluestone · 03/11/15 11:40PMGeorge and Amal Clooney Probably Can't Adopt a Baby From Syria
Allie Jones · 11/18/14 11:44AMThe Wonderful Flaws of Insane Shelter Dogs, Vol. 2
Hamilton Nolan · 04/28/14 01:40PMHow Parents Use Facebook and Yahoo to Unload Adopted Kids Online
Nitasha Tiku · 09/09/13 01:55PMUsually, you only see the term "private re-homing" on message boards where pet owners seek new caretakers for unwanted animals. But, Reuters reports, there's a far more sinister context for the phrase—on another, scarily similar network of online bulletin boards where desperate parents advertise and abandon children they regret adopting from overseas.
Hospital Sued For Performing Unneeded Sex-Assignment Surgery on Baby
Kate Bennert · 05/14/13 03:40PMHero Engineer Pulls Train's Emergency Brakes at the Last Minute, Saves Puppy Tied to the Tracks by Its Owner
Neetzan Zimmerman · 04/10/13 12:35PMRandom Facebook Post Helps Two Friends Discover They're Actually Aunt and Niece
Neetzan Zimmerman · 03/13/13 09:28AM$250 Million Island-Collecting Widow Dumped Two Children She Adopted from China
Taylor Berman · 03/03/13 10:07PMChristine Svenningsen is a rich, New York widow who enjoys collecting and remodeling estates in Long Island Sound. She is also, apparently, a rich, New York widow who enjoys collecting—I'm sorry, adopting—children from China, only to give them up for readoption once she tires of them. According to a report in the Daily News, Svenningsen has given up not just one adopted child—as previously thought—but two.
Puerto Rico Supreme Court Upholds Ban Preventing Gay Couples from Adopting
Maggie Lange · 02/20/13 04:50PMTwo Days After Asking for Help on Facebook, Utah Woman Successfully Ends Three-Year Search for Her Biological Parents
Neetzan Zimmerman · 01/31/13 03:23PMOld Monster Pat Robertson Warns People Against Adopting Children
Cord Jefferson · 08/27/12 11:00AMPat Robertson is the ancient evangelical leader who said natural disasters befell New Orleans and Haiti because the people there were living in sin. As you might imagine, Robertson has been mum about what the Republicans did to conjure the wrath of Hurricane Isaac at their glorified Tampa church potluck this week, but that didn't stop Ol' Pat from saying something else wildly wrong.
Whitney Houston's Daughter Likely Doing It with Whitney Houston's Adopted Son
Maureen O'Connor · 03/15/12 09:44AMReddit Tracks Down Adoptee's Family, And His Biological Sister's Boobs
Adrian Chen · 12/22/11 03:10PMHuffington Post: 'Is There Temptation for Fathers of Interracial Daughters?'
Maureen O'Connor · 08/16/11 06:23PMAmy Winehouse Was Adopting a 10-Year-Old When She Died
Maureen O'Connor · 08/01/11 10:32AMLiger Cub Being Raised by Dog
Max Read · 05/24/11 07:07PMWhat on earth could be cuter than a pair of baby ligers (the product of a Manchurian tiger mother and African lion father)? What about... those ligers being raised by a dog, alongside two of her own pups? This particular adorable multispecies family hails from the Xixiakou Wildlife Zoo in Shangdong, China. Unfortunately, two other liger cubs died of malnutrition after being rejected by their mother, but their siblings are apparently on the road to health, thanks to their adoptive mother.