News about international adoption in Ukraine

Alum fulfills calling in Ukraine, finding homes for children

One Baylor alumna is closing orphanages in Ukraine by helping children find families among Christian couples interested in adoption

October 16, 2012, 12:30 2748
Local couple hopeful in process of adopting Ukrainian boy

Bill and Karen Kochies never thought about adoption, but with the introduction of Ruslan, a Ukrainian orphan, into their family during a host family visit this past summer, the Kochies family knew there was an emptiness in their lives

October 9, 2012, 12:30 4019
Ukrainian visitors get a warm welcome

Nine Ukrainian adoptees from the metro area showed up at the airport to greet the seven children who are here to visit the United States for about three weeks

August 29, 2012, 17:30 3380
Couple adding to foster family

The casual observer would never know what a miracle the girls, who were once Ukrainian orphans, are to their adopted parents, Tim and Lynn Loecher of Brandon

August 29, 2012, 13:30 2841
Seven Ukrainian orphans visit Jackson

A group of seven orphans are visiting Jackson from the Ukraine

August 27, 2012, 13:30 3687
Ukraine’s Forgotten Children

Kate Blewett uncovers the disturbing fate of children in Ukraine abandoned to state care

June 19, 2012, 13:50 2412
A Foreign Orphan: Are little orphans from Zaporizhzhia Objects of Help or Just “Fancy Puppies”?

The ReporterUA has interviewed supporters and opponents of foreign adoption in Ukraine. They all told us why Americans adopt Ukrainian children with Down Syndrome and use them as fashion accessories at the parties of foreign adoptive parents

May 14, 2012, 11:05 7515
Adoption and family care for orphans in Ukraine

February 25, 2011, 21:00 12225
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