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"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

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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.

They are being held without bail.

The adoptive parents of a missing Waimanalo girl were indicted on murder charges Wednesday, Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney Steven Alm said. Lehua Kalua, 44, and Isaac “Sonny” Kalua, 52, were both charged with second-degree murder, hindering prosecution, endangering the welfare of a minor and persistent nonsupport in connection with the death of their adoptive daughter, 6-year-old […]

Jan. 6—A Circuit Court judge denied setting bail Friday for a Waimanalo man accused of murdering his adopted 6-year-old daughter in the summer of 2021. A Circuit Court judge denied setting bail Friday for a Waimanalo man accused of murdering his adopted 6-year-old daughter in the summer of 2021. Isaac "Sonny " Kalua III and his wife, Lehua, have been held without bail at Oahu Community ...

The Waimanalo couple accused of murdering their 6-year-old adopted daughter in 2021 apparently have retained their parental rights over three of the victim’s young sisters.

THE WORLD ORPHANS recognizes the importance of cultural identity, and as such, it promotes kinship care, where orphans are placed with extended...

Analysis and action on state-level legislation impacting adopted people in the United States.

(Bethel, AK) – On Tuesday, 36-year-old Stephanie Olrun entered a guilty plea to the charge of Murder in the Second Degree for the March 12, 2021, murder of her 2-year-old adopted daughter, Jane Olrun. Bethel Superior Court Judge Nathaniel Peters accepted Olrun’s plea to one count of Murder in the Second Degree. The charges of […]

Recently, in an interview with ET, reality TV actress Kim Kardashian-West talked about the third child she will soon be welcoming into her family. After giving birth to a daughter and son with her husband, Kanye West, she wanted to give her children more siblings. But getting pregnant the third time around was more difficult than she expected.

Despite its name, the Always Hope Adoption Agency seemed cursed. One of the operation’s moms-to-be and her prenatal child were shot dead. A surprisingly high number of pregnant women miscarried. Th…

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"It’s like you’re mourning a child you’ve never met."

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BUSAN, South Korea (AP) — A notorious South Korean facility that kidnapped, abused and enslaved children and the disabled for a generation was also shipping children overseas for adoption, part of a massive profit-seeking enterprise that thrived by exploiting those trapped within its walls, The Asso