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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.

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."

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.

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.

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

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…

In the age of 'Instagram adoptions', sophisticated con artists are defrauding prospective parents of large sums of money

"It’s like you’re mourning a child you’ve never met."

BUSAN, South Korea (AP) — A notorious South Korean facility that kidnapped, abused and enslaved children and the disabled for a generation was also shipping children overseas for adoption, part of a massive profit-seeking enterprise that thrived by exploiting those trapped within its walls, The Asso

Foster parents, tasked with the 24-7 care of often-traumatized children, show up for parent-teacher meetings, ferry their charges to doctor’s appointments, supervise homework and serve up cuddles. Many work closely with struggling biological parents in hopes of an eventual reunion. These days, many foster parents are being asked to do even more, as an increasing […]

Jatoia Potts lost both her children because she couldn’t explain her baby’s injuries. She's still fighting to get them back with her family.

NY Gov. Kathy Hochul vetoed a bill that would have given biological parents a way to communicate with their children who’ve been adopted.

Unveiling the Shocking Abyss of Adoptee Rights’ Annihilation

A movement to change the child welfare system asks caseworkers to speak up.