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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.

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…

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

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

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

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

Transracial adoptees across the country are starting to have difficult conversations with their families about systemic racism and social justice.

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.