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.

Find the most updated list of state laws regarding the use of advertising as a prospective adoptive parent. If you're considering advertising as part of your outreach in an independent adoption this is a must-read.

NY Gov. Kathy Hochul vetoed a bill that would have given biological parents a way to communicate with their children who’ve been adopted.

In many states, adoption lawyers are pushing a new legal strategy that forces biological parents to compete for custody of their children.

His agency is working with law enforcement after one of its licensed foster fathers, Justin Johnson Senior, was arrested and accused of making child pornography.

If the bill is passed, it will take effect on July 1.

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.

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Many otherwise middle-class people are "liquid-asset poor," meaning they can't withstand even a brief financial shock

A financial survey found that 59% of Americans are currently at risk of experiencing homelessness. In fact, they are just one paycheck away.

US Adoption Statistics may surprise you as nearly 100 million Americans have adoption in their immediate family. Learn more here.

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Adoption has a supply-and-demand problem. Amy Coney Barrett and her pals on the Supreme Court have the solution

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 […]

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.

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

By Nev Moore Massachusetts News Child "protection" is one of the biggest businesses in the country. We spend $12 billion a year on it. The money goes to tens of thousands of a) state employees, b) collateral professionals, such as lawyers, court personnel, court investigators, evaluators and guardians, judges, and c) DSS contracted vendors such

Uncovering the hidden realities of international adoption

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.