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The Three Key Benefits of Transracial Adoption

Adoption Choices of Kansas, we celebrate the benefits of transracial adoption and support those who decide to embark on this moving journey.

Concerns: INTRODUCTION • Risks for the children include development of: • Psychosocial • Emotional • Cultural • Data/ Research from Transracial Adoptees in the Media: 1986-1996 • (Print-media-reported interviews with adult transracial adoptees) • Results: • Problems with

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Adopting a child from a different race will undoubtedly bring a unique set of challenges. However, having an open mind will transform these challenges into joyo

Peggy Klappenberger of Crownsville, Maryland, has a little game she plays with her two teenage sons. Every time she drives by the hospital where they were born, she points to the window of the room where their birth took place. She makes a point of telling them, over and over, that they are seeing the […]

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…

After giving birth, the mother and child needs to bond before separating them. Here's 7 huge benefits of an undisturbed first hour after birth.

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A new brain imaging study shows that infants as young as three months are already enlisting the hippocampus to recognize and learn patterns.

Public investments in benefit programs could save tens of thousands of children from being victims of child abuse and have important later-life effects on child welfare and overall health.

Though most adoptions go well, histories of institutionalization of adopted children, as well as unrealistic expectations by adoptive parents, can make bonding difficult.

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BY: ALEX STAVROS, President and CEO, Calo Family of Programs It is not uncommon for adoptive parents to come to us feeling out of options for their difficult child and overwhelmed about what could have created all of these DSM diagnoses and intense feelings and behaviors.  Especially if the child wa

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

Finding characters and story lines that reflect the complexities of growing up in white families is almost impossible.

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.

Filmmaker Sun Hee Engelstoft is one of about 200,000 South Koreans to have been adopted overseas during the past six decades, mainly to white parents in America and Europe.

Parents are rehoming their adopted children on the internet, just like pets. And it must stop.

As the adoption industry migrates to social media, regretful adoptees and birth mothers are confronting prospective parents with their personal pain—and anger.

African Americans are in the minority in America, but black children cost less to adopt and are in the majority when it comes to needing forever homes.

The uptick of unaccompanied migrant children at the border is a challenge for agencies having to rebuild gutted systems to shelter them

An estimated 1 million families in the U.S. are looking to adopt at any given time. But problems with private adoption appear to be widespread.

Here are some of the pros of international adoption.