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Three brothers have found their forever home on Monday after a family adopted them out of foster care so they could stay together.

Christmas came early for seven siblings after an Arkansas couple fought to adopt them out of the state’s foster care system.

A California police officer added a fourth member to his family this week when he adopted the baby girl of a homeless woman battling a drug addiction.

The moment Ivey Zezulka discovered that she and her siblings would be adopted was documented in a simple, touching video.

“Entrusting children to so-called homosexual couples constitutes in the last analysis a moral abuse of children, the smallest and most defenseless,” said Bishop Athanasius Schneider in an interview with Italian media last week.

Police in eastern India announced on Wednesday that they arrested a nun and a worker at a Mother Teresa charity home for unwed mothers for child trafficking. They stand accused of selling a baby for 120,000 rupees, which works out to about $2,000.

Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin signed a bill Friday that will protect private adoption agencies from coercion, discrimination, or punishment as they help orphans find homes with a mom and a dad.

A Florida nurse who treated two severely abused toddlers made the ultimate commitment to make them a part of her forever family.

A heartwarming surprise left a Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, man in tears, as the young woman he helped to raise since the age of five presented him with adoption papers for Christmas.

Adoption applications from gay couples are on the rise in Britain, while applications from heterosexual couples are falling, according to a report.

The U.S. Senate is considering an amendment to a spending bill to fund the federal government that could result in thousands of wild horses on federal land being euthanized.

The government announced on Sunday that there are no intentions to change the law and allow gay couples to adopt in Israel. In response to a High Court petition, the state said that it was opposed to allowing same-sex couples to adopt because it would place an “additional burden” on the child.

A married New Jersey teacher has been accused of adopting a 15-year-old student so she could carry on a sexual relationship with him, police say.

A police officer was honored Tuesday for his work investigating a child abuse case and later adopting the victim he rescued and his sister.

A British couple of Sikh/Indian heritage are suing an adoption agency for allegedly refusing to consider them for adopting a white child, and advising them to go to India instead.

National pro-life leaders are celebrating mothers and motherhood as they also reach out to women experiencing the pain of the loss of motherhood through abortion.

Tim Tebow may be single, but he has already started planning out his future family.

“Last year, more than 100 children died in our Child Protective System. You can vote to end that,” said Texas Governor Greg Abbott during his State of the State Address on Tuesday.

Governor Greg Abbott addressed members of the Texas House and Senate in his State of the State Address on Tuesday and laid out his emergency items, including banning sanctuary cities, reforming the embattled agency responsible for safeguarding children, calling for a Convention of States to address overreaches by the federal government, and ethics reform governing elected officials.

US pop superstar Madonna appeared in person at a court in the Malawian capital Lilongwe on Wednesday to apply to adopt two more local children, a court spokesman told AFP.

A four-hour-old baby girl thrown in a Walmart garbage in New Roads, Louisiana, on Christmas Eve was saved by a cleaning crew member, who noticed the trash bin was heavier than usual.

Late Sunday night, longtime sports commentator Al Trautwig, one of NBC’s announcers for women’s gymnastics, ignited a firestorm when discussing the family of three-time world champion, Simone Biles. In the midst of the broadcast, Mr. Trautwig referred to Nellie and Ron Biles as Simone’s “grandparents” – something that was technically true, though not entirely accurate.

A 17-year-old Chicago girl brought her mother’s boyfriend to his knees after she asked to be officially adopted.

Texas and its state public officials may take a tough stance on illegal aliens in the Lone Star State, but those who are illegally in Texas are allowed to adopt children in Texas courts. The agency responsible for placing children in foster care when children are abandoned, neglected, or abused, is allowing illegal aliens to adopt children. Other states in the United States are allowing illegal aliens to adopt children in their courts as well.

Pro-life leader Lila Rose says Donald Trump’s comments Thursday that he will change the GOP’s platform on abortion to include exceptions for rape, incest, and the life of the mother imply that babies conceived in rape are “less worthy” of protection from abortion than others.

Misty Nicole Knight, 20, from Illinois surprised the man who raised her with a special gift: adoption papers.

WASHINGTON—Today the Supreme Court held that Alabama courts failed to recognize an adoption by a same-sex couple from Georgia. But this unanimous decision was based purely on the Constitution’s requirement for one state to uphold court decrees from another state and had nothing to do with the LGBT agenda.

How vile is the television industry? They won’t just promote toleration of abortion. They won’t just promote abortion itself. They will sanctify abortion, turn it into a sacred rite of passage.

A Utah juvenile court judge ruled Tuesday that a 1-year-old girl, who has been in the care of lesbian foster parents, cannot be adopted by them and should be sent to “a more traditional home,” says the Utah Division of Child and Family Services.

The group of religious sisters founded by Mother Teresa of Calcutta is shutting down its thirty orphanages in India as a protest, rather than comply with new state regulations requiring that they place children with single parents. It’s a religious liberty case eerily familiar to Americans.