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On November 19, 2004, Lauryn Galindo, a Seattle intercountry adoption facilitator, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for the child trafficking of hundreds of Cambodian children. Galindo denied child trafficking charges but pled guilty to money laundering and visa fraud. She admits to falsifying children’s names, dates of birth, places of birth, and family […]

Suppose, hypothetically, you could gather in one room 333 former foster children. Now, suppose you asked how many of them had been abused while...

After the end of Roe, a new beginning for maternity homes

In the years before Roe v. Wade, and in a context of severe stigma of out-of-wedlock pregnancies, maternity homes in the United States housed residents who, upon giving birth, often relinquished th…

Most state laws are designed to facilitate a smooth and easy adoption process. However, each state’s regulations do vary.

As more states limit or ban access to abortion, some are beginning to push adoption as an alternative for women facing unplanned pregnancies. But when do laws go from accommodating to exploitative? From the Center for Investigative Reporting, Julia Lurie examines the consequences in one of the most adoption-friendly states in the country.

Glamour speaks with the host and subject of the hit podcast which investigates the rise of maternity homes and the women who say they felt pressured to give up their babies in the post-Roe era.

The religious right is trying to impose its adoption ideology on the nation, to the detriment of women and their babies.

Adoption awareness training can dispel myths and help students develop positive attitudes toward adoption. Act 637 requires it.

A little-known law passed in 2023 requires public schools to teach "the reasons adoption is preferable to abortion" in grades 6-12.

Texas increases the number of its foster youth who are adopted. But its penchant for terminating the rights of parents is alarming to some advocates

As part of Activism in Adoption's educational series looking at ethics in adoption, we discuss the linking adoption pricing to race, and how this sets a up adoption as a marketplace.

"It's like you're…baiting them in," said one adoptive mother.

“I can’t think of any other groups of trauma survivors who are told to be grateful for that traumatic experience,” one expert said.

China ended its international adoption program in September, leaving families in the middle of applications in limbo.

From the 1960s through the 1980s in Chile, about 20,000 babies were stolen from their mothers and placed in adoptions outside the country. The mothers were young and poor. Some were indigenous. They were lied to, often being told their babies died at birth.

An exclusive investigation uncovers how State Department officials uncovered systemic corruption in the Vietnamese adoption system -- and how they struggled to do something about…

Western governments ignored widespread fraud in South Korean adoptions and sometimes pressured the country to keep the kids coming, an investigation led by The Associated Press has found.

The horrors of Romania's orphanages shocked the world after communism collapsed in 1989, when images emerged of emaciated children living in wretched conditions. Today, some of those adopted by families abroad are returning to Romania for answers and justice.

Rumors of stolen children adopted by unsuspecting parents circulated in international adoption circles for decades. And now a recent report confirms they're true. Nearly 30 years ago, Marjie Alonso adopted two boys from Paraguay. "I need to take a hard look at the families I dismantled to build my own."

Powerhouse Pam Hodgkins MBE gives us a whistlestop tour of adoption law in England and Wales. Pam we salute you for your work for adoptee rights!

"By blaming the parents you're diverting attention away from the structural reasons," argues scholar Dorothy Roberts

Adoption should not be seen as a default solution in the battle for reproductive rights. In debates about the right to this essential care, the voices and lived experiences of adoptees need to be heard.

After the Sandusky child abuse scandal rocked Pennsylvania, the state required more professionals to report suspected child abuse. That led to a strained child welfare system and more unsubstantiated reports against low-income families.

Diane Baird labeled her method for assessing families the “Kempe Protocol” after the renowned University of Colorado institute where she worked for decades. The school has yet to publicly disavow it.

The child welfare system strives to provide children and adolescents in foster care with a safe, nurturing environment through kinship and nonkinship foster care placement with the goal of either reunification with birth parents or adoption. Pediatricians can support families who care for children and adolescents who are fostered and adopted while attending to children’s medical needs and helping each child attain their developmental potential. Although this report primarily focuses on children in the US child welfare system, private and internationally adopted children often have similar needs.

Recently, in an interview with ET, reality TV actress Kim Kardashian-West talked about the third child she will soon be welcoming into her family. After giving birth to a daughter and son with her husband, Kanye West, she wanted to give her children more siblings. But getting pregnant the third time around was more difficult than she expected.

Despite its name, the Always Hope Adoption Agency seemed cursed. One of the operation’s moms-to-be and her prenatal child were shot dead. A surprisingly high number of pregnant women miscarried. Th…