Adoption

Deborra-lee Furness wants everyone to adopt change.

Emma Thompson’s husband, actor Greg Wise, has opened up about the couple’s failed attempts to conceive through IVF and how "upsetting" the process was.

Tour de France champion Cadel Evans has opened up about the first time he saw his adopted son Robel in an emotional interview. Speaking in the November issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly Cadel and his wife Chiara recall clicking on an email attachment and opening a photo of the Ethiopian orphan who would become […]

Phil Evans came into his mother’s life on November 14, 1950. The circumstances of his birth in Sydney’s Crown St Women’s Hospital were nothing remarkable. From what he’s been told the place was “a baby factory” at the time. But rather than going home in his 16-year-old mother’s arms when she left, he stayed alone […]

Tears were shed in the Great Hall at Parliament House today as the Prime Minister delivered a long awaited national apology to Australians affected by forced adoption.

A surrogate has revealed she was offered $10,000 to abort the baby she was carrying when its biological parents found out it was severely disabled. Crystal Kelley was 29 when she contacted a surrogacy agency to enquire about carrying a child for a couple struggling with fertility issues. The agency put her in contact with […]

Like it or loathe it, sometimes there’s no denying the power of social media. A US couple has been granted a Facebook miracle after raising $33,000 to adopt a child in just three days. Jack and Jessica Hance, a youth minister and family minister from Louisiana, started their journey through the complicated adoption process more […]

The NSW government has vowed to make adoption easier, for both parents who desperately want children, and children who desperately need safe, stable families. There were just 65 children adopted locally in 2011-12, a rise from 45 the year before. By contrast, there are more than 35,000 children living in “out-of-home” or foster care. Most […]

Bronwyn and Scott McNamara, a Sunshine Coast couple were all set to become Mum and Dad to an adopted Ethiopian child, but in June it was announced that the Ethiopia Program, which has facilitated the adoption of more than 600 Ethiopian children over 20 years, would close. “This has been a tough decision, but a […]

The federal government has cut its inter-country adoption agreement with Ethiopia, one of the most popular programs for Australians and the only one to allow single women to adopt. Prospective parents who have been waiting up to five years for a child were told of the closure yesterday. Related: Paul Howes – My gut-wrenching adoption […]