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The scientific evidence for keeping young people out of prison was clear 20 years ago, but not enough has been done, a government science advisor says.

Every adoption agency in Ireland has been involved in illegal child registrations, according to the head of children's charity Barnardos.

A Family Court judge says it is inexcusable that Oranga Tamariki, the Ministry for Children, insists on calling a mother a child abuser when the court had found she wasn't.

The lawyer for an 18 year-old who has admitted kidnapping an 11 day-old baby says her client believed she was taking the child for a friend who had put it up for adoption.

Three politicians' children tell their stories.

Authorities at the Marshall Islands' International Airport have accosted a suspected agent for illegal adoptions while he was trying to board a United Airlines flight last month along with two women…

Thousands of children are being re-admitted to hospital every year because of poor living conditions, a child health specialist says.

The United States government has flagged as a 'concern' an apparent increase in illegal adoptions of Marshall Islands babies in the US.

The Minister for Children is standing by a decision not to hold an inquiry into forced adoption during the 1950s to 1980s.

A women's advocate says Tonga needs to change its laws to be consistent with the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

A baby who was issued with a deportation notice has won a year's reprieve to remain with her adopted family in New Zealand.

A host of new laws passed in Solomon Islands to better protect children in the country will not be effective without wider social change, according to the Ministry of Women, Youth and Children's…

The Solomon Islands parliament has tightened the conditions for non-residents who want to adopt local children.

Norma McCorvey, whose test case made abortions legal in the United States, has died aged 69.

'They said, we've got a surprise for you.'

For Tania Seward, infertility was a club she never dreamed she would join - least of all in her 20s. She talks about her journey, and those of others.