No one would be surprised to learn that children, the most essential ingredients for most people of a happy, stable existence are expensive.
I was two weeks late being born. The trees on Unter-den-Linden in Berlin back in 1959 were gently scattering their blossoms across the wide pavements in the shade of buildings still [...]

The diplomatic relation between the Democratic Republic of Congo and its former colonial ruler Belgium, hasn’t been rosy lately. President Joseph Kabila of the DRC was angered by the remarks made by Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht who is known for his straight talk, about the lack of transparency that Kabila’s government has shown [...]

The whole notion of sperm banks aroused a bunch of questions one of which is - would a sperm bank work in Nigeria, or even in Africa? And if yes, what are the socio-cultural constraints or factors to consider?

In the 19th Century Nigeria, Mary Slessor, a Christian missionary living in the south-eastern region not only introduced Christianity to the locals, but also adopted a number of children including twins which were considered cursed and often sacrificed. Now that same religion, in the same region, is being used as a medium to perpetrate violence against children.

The village of Igbo-Ora, Nigeria is often referred to has “The land of twins” because there is hardly any family within the community without a set of twins. The unusually high number of twins born within this community has led many fertility experts into believing the community’s daily consumption of agida (local name for yam [...]

The trend has always been Americans and Europeans adopting African kids; one hardly hears of Africans adopting non-African kids, this trend is about to change. Ellen Tarlin writes via Slate.com (Oct 4, 2007):
“A Malawi couple has completed adoption paperwork for Sean Preston Federline, 2, and Jayden James Federline, 1, after their mother, Britney Spears, [...]

I was watching ‘Without A Trace’ (a detective story about missing people) the other day and the story was about a famous American couple who adopted a little boy from Africa. The show focused on the kidnapping of the kid by some African men who claimed they wanted to return him to his biological [...]