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NZers surrogate babies stranded in Mexico
The Ministry of Social Development has given what advice it can to a New Zealand couple trying to bring surrogate babies back to this country, it says. Audio
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Woman convicted of stealing newborn baby
A South African court has found a woman guilty of kidnapping a newborn baby girl from a hospital nearly 20 years ago
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Adoption law 'outdated, discriminatory'
New Zealand's adoption law discriminates based on sex, marital status, disability and age, an independent tribunal has found.
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School groups wary of national standards computer system
Distrust is slowing the uptake of a computer system designed to make national standards in reading, writing and maths more accurate, school groups say.
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Change to 'antiquated' adoption law needed - researcher
New Zealand's adoption law is outdated and needs to be changed, an adoption researcher says.
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Third of missing don't want to be found - Salvation Army
A nationwide service that tracks down missing persons, estimates about a third of those it traces do not want to be found.
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Victory for same-sex couples wanting to adopt
An Auckland same-sex de facto couple has won an historic court ruling allowing them to apply to jointly adopt children. Audio
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NZ adoption laws 'breach human rights'
Fewer children are being adopted and the government is under increasing pressure to modernise its 60-year-old law.
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'CYFS need to listen to carers'
A Porirua family, who have fostered children, explain the problems they and their relatives have had with CYFS bouncing kids from family to family. Audio
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International surrogacy
The demand for cross border surrogacy is booming, with people travelling overseas to avoid local laws prohibiting payment for surrogate mothers. Australian Sam Everingham went through the process… Audio
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Scam adoption not official - charity
A Chinese couple who tried to pass a baby off as their own would never have been able to adopt the infant through official channels, an inter-country adoption charity says. Audio
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Hard lessons for a wild child
At the age of 14, Damien Adams found himself staring down a 12-week stint at an alcohol and drug rehabilitation centre. That period turned out to give him the strength he needed to face the world.
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Unicef faults NZ for outdated adoption law
The United Nations children's agency, Unicef, says New Zealand's adoption law is nearly 60 years out of date and successive governments have failed to act on a series of its recommendations. Audio
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Kidnapped children freed in China
Police in China have rescued 92 children held by a huge trafficking network.
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Baby factory found
Seventeen pregnant teenage girls and 11 babies have been rescued from a house in south-eastern Nigeria. The babies were intended for sale.
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Guam legislature passes abortion bill
Guam's Legislature has passed the Women's Reproductive Health Bill by one vote The bill requires that information on alternatives be provided to pregnant women who are considering terminating their…
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PM says civil union adoption not a priority
Delegates at the National Party conference have agreed the party should adopt a policy of legalising adoption for civil union partners but Prime Minister John Key says it's not a priority.
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China smashes child trafficking gangs
Police in China have broken up two major child trafficking gangs and freed 181 children, officials say
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Court order made for adoption of baby
A British court has ruled a baby must be adopted because she is at risk of becoming the victim of an "honour killing". Her natural mother does not want her family to find out about the birth.
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Gay marriage supporters march on Parliament
About 300 protesters marched on Parliament on Thursday in a bid to convince the New Zealand Government to legalise same-sex marriage and allow gay couples to adopt children. Audio
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Call for Pacific communities to reduce risk of child trafficking
An Australian Institute of Criminology researcher is encouraging Pacific communities and families to build on cultural strengths to reduce the vulnerability of children to trafficking. The Institute's…
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Pacific children vulnerable to sex tourism - study
A new study says that children in the Pacific region are vulnerable to sex tourism, cheap labour and illegal adoption but there's limited evidence of the extent of the problem.
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Friday's newspaper headlines
More than 2300 Canterbury homes feared uninhabitable; earthquake triggers record rise in heart attacks; fiery super city meeting.
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Midwife facing disciplinary hearing
A disciplinary hearing has begun in Christchurch for a midwife charged with failing to act in the best interests of five of her patients between 2005 and 2008.
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De facto couple's right to adopt upheld
The right of a de facto couple to adopt a child has been upheld by the High Court in a judgement delivered on Thursday.
