Explore factors that contribute to racial and ethnic disproportionality and disparity in the child welfare system. The publication also outlines strategies to assist professionals with addressing these issues and decision-making along the continuum.

A 4-year-old boy is dead, and his mother is in jail on murder charges, accused of beating him to death.

"By blaming the parents you're diverting attention away from the structural reasons," argues scholar Dorothy Roberts

Public acknowledgement of the discriminatory harms perpetrated by the child welfare system is long overdue.

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Adoption should not be seen as a default solution in the battle for reproductive rights. In debates about the right to this essential care, the voices and lived experiences of adoptees need to be heard.

A new study suggests more women are being shamed for the decision to place their child for adoption, making a mother’s impossible decision even harder

After the Sandusky child abuse scandal rocked Pennsylvania, the state required more professionals to report suspected child abuse. That led to a strained child welfare system and more unsubstantiated reports against low-income families.

Diane Baird labeled her method for assessing families the “Kempe Protocol” after the renowned University of Colorado institute where she worked for decades. The school has yet to publicly disavow it.

The child welfare system strives to provide children and adolescents in foster care with a safe, nurturing environment through kinship and nonkinship foster care placement with the goal of either reunification with birth parents or adoption. Pediatricians can support families who care for children and adolescents who are fostered and adopted while attending to children’s medical needs and helping each child attain their developmental potential. Although this report primarily focuses on children in the US child welfare system, private and internationally adopted children often have similar needs.

When the local sheriff knocked on the family’s door... he found only empty rooms inside.

“I wouldn’t trade him for anything!” parenting vlogger Myka Stauffer said about her adoptive son two years ago in a post that doubled as an ad for laundry detergent.

"We have been trained to see adoption as a fairy-tale ending to a tragic story."

"The longer we waited, the more anxious I became. If we didn’t tell her soon, I feared it could do lasting damage to our family."

“As a child, I assumed my Koreanness just fell away like a snake shedding its skin. I thought, 'That must be what happens when you’re adopted.'”

"Was this why I could never shake that lonely gnawing in my belly when I was growing up? Was she the reason?"

"What do you say to your child that isn’t legally your child when he reaches out to you in need of something you aren’t sure you’re allowed to give him?"

"Now a mother myself, I often think about the emotions that must have swirled within my birth mother during her pregnancy."

Just because I express negative emotions about being adopted does not necessarily make me an angry adoptee.

The couple have two children

National Council For Adoption is a leading voice for adoption providing trusted expertise and resources for everyone connected to adoption.

A dad has sparked outrage after revealing he and his wife are putting their three-month-old daughter up for adoption because she's 'not a good fit' for their family

Jan Gholami must serve at least 23-and-a-half years for murdering his two-year-old adopted daughter.

RIVERSIDE COUNTY, Calif. (TCD) -- The Riverside County District Attorney's Office unsealed a 15-count indictment last week, charging a couple again on suspicion of murder and endangerment against multiple disabled dependents in their care.

UPDATE (2/16/2023) -- Columbus Police announced Friday morning that police discovered the body of 5-year-old Darnell Taylor in a sewage drain near Cleveland.