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"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.

The 147-page report, “‘If I Wasn’t Poor, I Wouldn’t Be Unfit’: The Family Separation Crisis in the US Child Welfare System,” documents how conditions of poverty, such as a family’s struggle to pay rent or maintain housing, are misconstrued as neglect, and interpreted as evidence of an inability and lack of fitness to parent. Human Rights Watch and the ACLU found significant racial and socioeconomic disparities in child welfare involvement. Black children are almost twice as likely to experience investigations as white children and more likely to be separated from their families.

More than 3 million U.S. children were involved in an intervention for suspected abuse or neglect in a single year. Advocates say a disproportionate impact on families of color makes reform urgent.

What happens if your genome hides a secret about your ethnic identity? Jenny Kleeman, presenter of The Gift, meets a few people who made surprising discoveries to find out.

Oftentimes, youth enter foster care due to neglect.  According to the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) data for Fiscal Year 2021, of the nearly 400,000 children in foster care in the United States, 63% of these youth found themselves within the child welfare system because neglect – over 130,000 youth in…

There's been a slow but steady movement across the U.S. to unseal records for adoptees, but bipartisan efforts have repeatedly stalled in Texas – and one state senator has consistently stood in the way.

South Korean adoptees have been returning to the country to hold the government accountable for what they call a corrupt adoption system that went largely unchanged until recent decades.

It was a couple nights before we were heading home from our son’s birth state when we sat down to ty...

The Biden administration can block a Trump rule codifying legal discrimination using federal funds, but 11 state-level measures remain intact.

Adoptees reckon with corruption in orphanages, hidden birth certificates, and the urge to search for their birth parents.

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When my husband and I first started our adoption journey, I must confess we had no idea where to beg...

Adopting a child from another country can be a powerful way to share God's love. And it's easier than you think.

Messengers at the 2009 annual meeting of The Southern Baptist Convention in Louisville on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed a…

Evangelical groups will help find homes with 'a mommy and a daddy.'

The adoption agency Bethany Christian Services says interest from couples in adopting is significantly ahead of what it was last year, a trend that is being seen elsewhere and, adoption leaders say, is an example of a growing adoption movement among Christians.

When devout Christian families made it their mission to save children from war-torn countries, the match was often far from heavenly.

One death came after family courts ordered a child to live with a paedophile, a BBC investigation finds.

After decades apart, adults who were ripped from their mothers' arms as babies in Chile are being reunited with families they never knew.

A bill introduced before Congress would give states greater authority in deciding whether to seek the termination of parental rights in child welfare cases.