French president signs gay marriage into law
France will see its first gay weddings within days, after French President Francois Hollande signed a law Saturday authorizing marriage and adoption ...
Portugal expands adoption rights for gay couples
Portugal's Parliament has passed a law allowing same-sex married couples to adopt their partners' children, but lawmakers rejected legislation ...

Julianne Moore: 'bad Mom' role is her antithesis
Julianne Moore sometimes identifies with the characters she plays but when it came to playing a bad mother in "What Maisie Knew," she couldn't relate.
Russia mulls foreign same-sex couple adoption ban
The head of a Russian parliamentary committee says the legislature is ready to prevent adoptions by foreign same-sex couples. In the wake of France's ...

Princess Alexandra? UK royal baby name bets surge
Queen Debbie doesn't quite have the right ring to it. King Bob just sounds wrong. Naming a baby is no easy business, but much more is at stake when ...

UK couple face jail for killing 6 children in fire
Mick Philpott presented himself as an amiable rascal with an unorthodox lifestyle and a rambunctious brood of children — 17 in all, with five women.

In Russia, teen complains of adoptive US parents
A teenager adopted by an American couple has returned to Russia, claiming that his adoptive family treated him badly and that he lived on the streets ...
UK: Public OK with creating babies from 3 people
Britain's fertility regulator says it has found broad public support for in vitro fertilization techniques that allow babies to be created with DNA ...
Dutch lesbians raising Turkish boy go into hiding
A Dutch lesbian couple have gone into hiding with their foster son after the boy's biological parents said on television in Turkey that they object ...

France wants more dads to take time off for babies
French President Francois Hollande wants more dads to stay home with their babies and more moms to get back to work faster. On Friday, International ...

Fergie and husband Duhamel study up on parenting
Actor Josh Duhamel and his wife, Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie, have already started doing their homework as they prepare to welcome their first child

German court strengthens gay adoption rights
Germany's highest court strengthened gay couples' adoption rights in a ruling Tuesday that the country's justice minister greeted as "a historic step.

French Assembly passes gay marriage, adoption bill
France's lower house of parliament approved a sweeping bill on Tuesday to legalize gay marriage and allow same-sex couples to adopt children, handing ...

French gay marriage plans stir parenthood debate
The French are all for sex and all for family — so long as you're having sex to create one. Anything dealing with assisted reproduction makes a ...
Foreign adoptions by Americans decline again
The number of foreign children adopted by U.S. parents fell by 7 percent last year, to the lowest level since 1994, and is likely to plunge further ...

Gay marriage protest converges on Eiffel Tower
Holding aloft ancient flags and young children, hundreds of thousands of people converged Sunday on the Eiffel Tower to protest the French president's ...
Vatican criticizes court ruling on gays' children
The Vatican is pressing its opposition to gay marriage, insisting Saturday that children should grow up with a father and a mother after Italy's high ...

Malala's father given diplomatic role in UK
The father of a teenage Pakistani activist shot in the head by Taliban for advocating girls' education has been given a diplomatic post in the U.K.

Kenya hospital imprisons new mothers with no money
The director of the Pumwani Maternity Hospital, located in a hardscrabble neighborhood of downtown Nairobi, freely acknowledges what he's accused of: ...

Russian FM against any ban on US adoptions
Russia's foreign minister on Tuesday strongly criticized a proposal in the country's parliament that would ban Americans from adopting Russian ...