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…

We run adoption ads and know that it's critical that adopting parents understand states' adoption advertising laws. This article is a great starting point.

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A dozen men are suing the state of Utah in federal court because of a law that allows mothers to put their babies up for adoption without the biological father's consent, or sometimes even knowledge. The civil rights lawsuit claims the Utah Adoption Act has resulted in what amounts to "legalized fraud and kidnapping."

A local family desperately wants to adopt their 4-year-old relative, but they say the state is preventing them from keeping the little girl in the family. Instead, the family’s lawyer says one of the employees at the adoption agency they used is trying to adopt the child.

Filmmaker Elizabeth Jacobs, 21, will revisit the claim that 'poor Cambodian families are preyed on by baby recruiters' in her documentary, The Stolen Children

What the Adoption Agencies & Professionals Don't Want You to Know About Adoption in the USA. The problem is that adoption is a business, a big business. There

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In at least 36 states and the District of Columbia, child welfare agencies use a child's benefit checks to offset the cost of foster care, often leaving them with a tattered safety net as adults.

It's shockingly easy for CPS to destroy poor, Black families.

An appeals court upheld Paul Petersen's six-year sentence in Arkansas for conspiring to smuggle people as a part of a fraudulent adoption scheme.

The Corrupt Business of Child Protective Services This article’s author worked with around 300 cases in Georgia, along with hundreds across the nation. She shares heart-breaking stories of CPS corruption, including how children are being taken away unnecessarily...

Anti-Adoptionists are passionate activists are dedicated to ending the corruption, commodification and exploitation inherent in adoption

The number of orphanages in developing nations has dramatically increased in the past decade, but where are the “orphans” coming from?

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.