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Russia is on its way to sharply limiting the adoption of children by people from countries that allow same-sex marriage.

A bill that would cut off federal funding to adoption and foster care agencies that discriminate against gay and lesbian couples seeking to parent is making its way to Congress again with bipartisan support.

Portugal’s Parliament has passed a law allowing same-sex married couples to adopt their partners’ children, but lawmakers rejected legislation granting gay couples the same adoption rights as heterosexuals.

Puerto Rico’s government is supporting an effort to overturn a ban on gay adoption in the U.S. island territory.

A lesbian whose adoption request was recently denied by Puerto Rico’s Supreme Court is appealing the ruling.

Puerto Rico’s Supreme Court narrowly voted Wednesday to uphold a law banning gay couples from adopting children.

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

A Florida circuit judge allowed a 23-month-year-old girl’s birth certificate to list a gay man and a lesbian couple.

Dale Liuzza, from Louisiana, says he has no parental legal rights in seeing his son after his partner took him away and moved to Washington State.

The Virginia Board of Social Services’ decision to scrap a proposal that would have banned adoption and foster care agencies from discriminating against prospective adoptive parents based on their sexual orientation highlights the ongoing debate over whether non-discrimination statutes apply to private agencies.