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

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

Adoptee Peter Capomolla Moore wanted his father listed on his birth certificate — and after a mammoth battle with authorities, he's achieved his aim in a ruling he hopes will have implications for others in the same boat.

Read and download the child-friendly version of the Convention on the Rights of the Child

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.

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."

His adopted son’s biological grandpa is pleading with the actor.

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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 […]

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

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.

Tens of thousands of international adoptees in the United States, many of them of Korean descent, are under threat of potential deportation.

Mishandled forms, two felonies and immigration law send a 25-year-old back to the Thailand he left as a child.