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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.

A disproportionate number of Black children are removed from their homes in L.A. County. Now, the county has backed a "blind removal" pilot for study.

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

A convergence of trends makes this an especially challenging time for adoption in the United States.

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.

Adopted children may be more likely than their non-adopted siblings to attempt suicide, according to a new U.S. study.

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?

Why are so many children with parents living in an orphanage? The biggest single cause is poverty, followed by limited access to basic services, such as education and health care. Most children in orphanages today have at least one living parent, who gave them up in the belief an orphanage offers a better life. They’re wrong.

Bethany Christian Services is phasing out its international adoption program and will focus instead on finding adoptive homes for children in their home countries.

In 2005, almost 46,000 children were adopted across borders. Ten years later, just 12,000 were. The foreign adoption system is imploding, potentially putting children’s lives in danger.

Uncovering the hidden realities of international adoption

Three Partners Offer a Solution on International Children’s Day

Tens of thousands of people who were legally adopted and raised in the U.S. by Americans lack the fundamental rights of citizenship.