This post by Gilles Cuniberti on conflict of laws.netreports on three  Cour de cassation judgments in France delivered this week ruling that foreign surrogacy judgments violate French public policy.

Here’s an interesting story in the N.Y. Times: Sharon LaFraniere, As China Ages, Birthrate Policy May Prove Difficult to Reverse (April 7, 2011).

The recent decision of the European Court of Human Rights in A, B, and C v.

Amazing description in this Wall Street Journal story of the new world of international surrogacy, with particular attention to the recruiting of women located in Greece and India to act as surrogates and a broker based in California. See Tamara Audi and Arlene Chang, Assembling the Global Baby (12/10/10).

See this article by Liz Gooch in the N.Y. Times: Malaysia Struggles with Baby Abandonment.

International recognition of the parent-child relationship established after a surrogate pregnancy remains a complex problem for a number of European countries.  This post on conflictoflaws.net reports on a new Instruction regarding registration of foreign births by surrogacy in Spain. Another post reported on a

In this analysis of Marriage and Divorce in Tunisia – Women’s Rights, posted on the web site of the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID), Massan d’Almeida discusses the Personal Status Code enacted in Tunisia in 1956, and notes two guidebooks on marriage and divorce published in Arabic and French by the Tunisian Women’s Association for Research and Development (Associa

A story by Emily Wax in the Washington Post reports on the use of in vitro fertilization by women in India to conceive and bear children past the age of 50, and in one case after age 70. See In India, age often doesn’t stop women from seeking help to become pregnant (8/13/10).

Recent coverage includes  China’s One-Child Policy, a series of stories and profiles on Marketplace (American Public Media), and this piece from Time magazine: “How China Has Pruned its Families’ Trees,”

An interesting short update on changes to the “one-child” policy in China by Didi Kirsten Tatlow, published in the International Herald Tribune and the New York Times, available here.