Analysis and action on state-level legislation impacting adopted people in the United States.

Unveiling the Shocking Abyss of Adoptee Rights’ Annihilation

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“Adoptees are told to just be grateful that we were chosen. And yet so many of us are struggling.”

Thomas Rhett’s 6-year-old daughter has started asking some tough family questions, and the country star admits he’s not ready to have a deep conversation about adoption just yet.

“What’s happening at the Supreme Court is that people are using us to further their own agenda. They’re co-opting our lives and our stories.”

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The Adoptee Therapist Directory includes licensed US mental health professionals who identify as adoptees and work with adoptees / adoptive families in...

Giving a Voice to Adoption

The survey was entitled “Adult Adoptee Perceptions in Closed Adoption.” A link to the survey (through Survey Monkey) was shared on Facebook, Twitter, and this blog over a 2-week timefra…

Who and What is Adoption Surveys?  About Summary A special survey was created for adult adoptees that was open only for the month of November (2018) which is National Adoption Awareness Month (NAAM…

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

Dear Adoption, I Am Finally Ready to Face You – The Real You, The Darker You You are not exactly honest all the time. You are not who you say you are. Your meaning changes depending on who defines …

The Debate on Interracial Adoption: Since the 1970s, there have been debates in America on whether children of one race should be adopted by parents of another. One camp argues that children adopted interracially lose their sense of identity and culture, while the other claims that regardless of rac

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 […]

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.

Paul Sunderland Talks About Adoption and Addiction

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

In the 1970s babies born out of wedlock were regularly forced into the adoption system.

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

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

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

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