International adoption landscapes are shifting dramatically. Many nations now prioritize domestic placements, making ...

The amount you pay to adopt a child can vary significantly, depending on the route you take for adoption, where you live and ...

When LGBTQ+ people tell me they want to adopt, I always start with the same response: “Tell me what you mean by that.” Not to challenge them, but to make it clear that adoption isn’t one path. There ...

When Dominique White went to a Texas Planned Parenthood after discovering she was pregnant at 17, a staff person told her that she had two options: either abort her child or raise him herself.

When I was born, my Korean parents, immigrants to the United States, relinquished me for adoption. At the age of two and a half months, I was placed with a white family who lived in a small town in ...

Adoption can be exhilarating, scary, confusing, and hopeful, all at the same time. Adoption, though a fairly common means of forming a family, is rarely represented in media; as a result, prospective ...

“An underlying factor for all of the adoptions in my study is that most mothers that I interviewed didn’t want to be relinquishing in the first place.” An activist in Santa Monica, California, that ...

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For as long as she could remember, Stacey Green had dreamed of becoming a mother. The Indiana woman could envision it. Cozy nights making s’mores over the fire pit. Playing in the backyard with their ...