Some Americans have unknowingly adopted Chinese babies taken from their parents and sold to orphanages. But can the Congress do anything about it?

Why are so many children with parents living in an orphanage? The biggest single cause is poverty, followed by limited access to basic services, such as education and health care. Most children in orphanages today have at least one living parent, who gave them up in the belief an orphanage offers a better life. They’re wrong.

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Bethany Christian Services is phasing out its international adoption program and will focus instead on finding adoptive homes for children in their home countries.

Uncovering the hidden realities of international adoption

Rejecting extreme portrayals of their families and lives, transracial adoptees navigate nuance and urge parents to advocate against racism.

Reuters exposes the largely lawless marketplace of adopted children. Through Yahoo and Facebook groups, parents and others advertise unwanted children and then pass them to strangers.

Evangelical Americans believed adoption could save children in the developing world from poverty—and save their souls.

Tens of thousands of people who were legally adopted and raised in the U.S. by Americans lack the fundamental rights of citizenship.

Transracial adoptees across the country are starting to have difficult conversations with their families about systemic racism and social justice.

SunAh M. Laybourn and Carla Goar write that despite the intended benefits of transracial adoption, adoptive parents are not immune to racist, stereotypical, and tokenizing beliefs about non-white groups and raise their children within these racist logics.

I am always asked is, “how long will it take to adopt?” The answer is always, “it depends.” Learn the seven common factors affecting adoption wait times.

Adopted at seven months old, I grew up burying my Korean identity and presenting myself as culturally white. And then, I learned to cook.