Frustrated foster parents have to get permission every time their foster child needs major medical treatment, changes schools or the family move.

In my almost 40 years, I've only recently been able to talk about adoption honestly and openly. And it is incredibly difficult.

A woman who adopted a child has won the right to paid parental leave, after being told by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment that she wasn't eligible.

An Auckland man who went to the other end of the earth to find his biological parents in Russia has chanced upon another person from the same orphanage living in New Zealand.

A young Cambodian girl adopted by a Kiwi couple has qualified for New Zealand citizenship after a five-year battle.

A bill which would allow a young New Zealander to have the names of both of her mothers on her birth certificate has passed its first hurdle in Parliament tonight.

Unmarried Kiwis are no longer able to adopt Russian children because New Zealand has legalised gay marriage.

A Wairarapa school will be closed for its first day of term today so its pupils can attend the funeral of a 10-year-old schoolmate killed in a quad bike crash.

A Green MP says his bill to reform adoption law is much broader than gay adoption and will provide a much needed overhaul, including open adoptions.

A Wairarapa couple have been sent to prison for more than a year and a half after being found guilty of ill-treating and neglecting their adopted daughter.

What is it about New Year's Eve that prompts us to do (or at least toy with the idea of doing) something good or perhaps more meaningful with our lives?

More than 3300 dogs impounded in Auckland were destroyed in 2010-11.

In rural Nepal, where the going rate for a healthy orphan is US$6000 ($7449), about 600 children are missing.

A 28-year-old man who was given up for adoption allegedly subjected his birth mother to more than 12 months of abuse.

Auckland couple Jo Denvir and Daniel Nixon have been waiting three years for the adoption doors to Russia to reopen.