The United States has warned its citizens against adopting children in Nepal, saying it has "grave concerns" about the reliability of that country's adoption system. The government urged prospective adoptive parents to choose another country, citing the case of a young Nepalese girl placed in the custody of an American couple without the consent of her biological mother and ...

South Korean activists staged a protest Friday against a government crackdown on abortion, saying women should have the right to decide on the issue. About 40 activists -- mainly women -- from 24 groups shouted "Stop a crackdown on abortion that violates women's rights" in a Seoul park, after issuing a joint statement to mark International Women's Day on March ...

Anne Harding NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women whose water has broken early may want to wait at least 18 months before having their next child, new research shows. Known by doctors as preterm premature rupture of membranes, this complication, in which a woman's water breaks before her pregnancy has reached full term and before labor has begun, occurs in ...

Rajan Kumar Nepali did not know he was giving up his two young children when he put his thumbprint on a document handing custody to an orphanage in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu. The owners of the children's home had promised to take care of his son and daughter while the 28-year-old labourer, who cannot read or write, tried to ...