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By Christy Crowe Hughes   THE CONCEPT OF adoption is very old—it is part of our earliest Judeo-Christian myths (Moses for example). Although it is an essential social mechanism for taking care…

Read and download the Convention on the Rights of the Child – the most widely ratified human rights treaty

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The leader of a megachurch in California is accused of torturing her three adopted daughters, killing one of them.

Anti-Adoptionists are passionate activists are dedicated to ending the corruption, commodification and exploitation inherent in adoption

DNA is the major systematic force that makes us who we are.

Rejecting extreme portrayals of their families and lives, transracial adoptees navigate nuance and urge parents to advocate against racism.

The number of orphanages in developing nations has dramatically increased in the past decade, but where are the “orphans” coming from?

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.

Evangelical Americans believed adoption could save children in the developing world from poverty—and save their souls.

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.

After feeling duped by adoption agencies, these women are on a mission to combat adoption coercion.

Every adoption story is different

SunAh M. Laybourn and Carla Goar write that despite the intended benefits of transracial adoption, adoptive parents are not immune to racist, stereotypical, and tokenizing beliefs about non-white groups and raise their children within these racist logics.

I am always asked is, “how long will it take to adopt?” The answer is always, “it depends.” Learn the seven common factors affecting adoption wait times.

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Adopted at seven months old, I grew up burying my Korean identity and presenting myself as culturally white. And then, I learned to cook.

The foster care system is tasked with protecting the welfare of children suffering from abuse and neglect. However, many children taken from their families are subjected to sexual abuse and left in a more vulnerable and traumatized state. Several localized studies demonstrate the startling implications of the pervasiveness of sexual abuse in the foster care...

Zella Jackson Price claims her baby was stolen and that she didn't abandon her.