Family

EP vice-president criticizes Lithuania for violating LGBTI rights

Amid the European Commission's (EC) analysis whether the Lithuanian Law on the Protection of Minors against the Detrimental Effect of Public Information is...

Support for same-sex partnership in Lithuania doubles over one year

Seventy-nine percent of people in Lithuania still say they oppose legislation instituting same-sex partnership. But the number of those in support has...

Group of MPs want Lithuanian government to pick a fight with Norway over children's welfare

A group of Lithuanian legislators, mostly conservatives, want the government to pick a fight with Norway over kids taken from Lithuanian immigrant families...

More couples tied the knot last year in Lithuania

The number of marriages registered in Lithuania in 2014 went up by 1,500 from the year before, with more couples deciding to wed outside civil registry...

Norway's ambassador to Lithuania speaks out on child custody controversy involving Norwegian child services

Norway 's Ambassador to Lithuania Dag Malmer Halvorsen says that children are rarely taken from their Lithuanian families in Norway.