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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Paul Sunderland Talks About Adoption and Addiction

http://www.ted.com Pop quiz: When does learning begin? Answer: Before we are born. Science writer Annie Murphy Paul talks through new research that shows how much we learn in the womb -- from the lilt of our native language to our soon-to-be-favorite foods. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate.

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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.

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.

Resource parents provide love and support, and many former foster youth go on to graduate college and rise above their traumas and struggles.

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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.

Agencies have become too focused on profitable overseas adoptions, while vulnerable children are being commodified, critics say.

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.

Darker-skinned children wait longer to be adopted and it costs more to adopt a white baby.

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

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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.

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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

Some Americans have unknowingly adopted Chinese babies taken from their parents and sold to orphanages. But can the Congress do anything about it?