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.

Testimonials from birth mothers and birthparents who selected adoption after facing an unplanned pregnancy

I grew up in a very religious home. We never missed a church service. I taught Sunday school. I briefly considered going into ministry work as a career. Then I got pregnant my freshman year of coll…

By Christy Crowe Hughes   THE CONCEPT OF adoption is very old—it is part of our earliest Judeo-Christian myths (Moses for example). Although it is an essential social mechanism for taking care…

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Stolen children, sealed records, unwed mothers, orphan trains, foreign adoptions, good intentions, bad intentions, the fate of detained…

Agnès Dherbeys returns to South Korea, from where she and many others were adopted, to meet some of those who were impelled to abandon their children.