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Foster parents, tasked with the 24-7 care of often-traumatized children, show up for parent-teacher meetings, ferry their charges to doctor’s appointments, supervise homework and serve up cuddles. Many work closely with struggling biological parents in hopes of an eventual reunion. These days, many foster parents are being asked to do even more, as an increasing […]

Jatoia Potts lost both her children because she couldn’t explain her baby’s injuries. She's still fighting to get them back with her family.

NY Gov. Kathy Hochul vetoed a bill that would have given biological parents a way to communicate with their children who’ve been adopted.

Unveiling the Shocking Abyss of Adoptee Rights’ Annihilation

A Black couple was sentenced to 35 years in prison for starving their adopted teen to death.

A movement to change the child welfare system asks caseworkers to speak up.

Brandon Marteliz is fighting for custody while the child, who is now almost 2, is with prospective adoptive parents.

The 147-page report, “‘If I Wasn’t Poor, I Wouldn’t Be Unfit’: The Family Separation Crisis in the US Child Welfare System,” documents how conditions of poverty, such as a family’s struggle to pay rent or maintain housing, are misconstrued as neglect, and interpreted as evidence of an inability and lack of fitness to parent. Human Rights Watch and the ACLU found significant racial and socioeconomic disparities in child welfare involvement. Black children are almost twice as likely to experience investigations as white children and more likely to be separated from their families.

More than 3 million U.S. children were involved in an intervention for suspected abuse or neglect in a single year. Advocates say a disproportionate impact on families of color makes reform urgent.

John Snyder and Katherine Snyder will each spend decades in an Ohio prison for killing their 8-year-old adopted son, Adam Snyder, seven years ago.

Lauren, 34, and Jacob Maloberti, 33, a corrections officer at Fayette State Correctional Centre are accused of violently abusing Landon, 5.

In many states, adoption lawyers are pushing a new legal strategy that forces biological parents to compete for custody of their children.

In many states, adoption lawyers are pushing a new legal strategy that forces biological parents to compete for custody of their children.

What happens if your genome hides a secret about your ethnic identity? Jenny Kleeman, presenter of The Gift, meets a few people who made surprising discoveries to find out.

Oftentimes, youth enter foster care due to neglect.  According to the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) data for Fiscal Year 2021, of the nearly 400,000 children in foster care in the United States, 63% of these youth found themselves within the child welfare system because neglect – over 130,000 youth in…

Commercial DNA testing has ended genetic anonymity. Adoption is still predicated and governed by secrecy. Using her own experience, the speaker illustrates...

There's been a slow but steady movement across the U.S. to unseal records for adoptees, but bipartisan efforts have repeatedly stalled in Texas – and one state senator has consistently stood in the way.

More than two years of legal proceedings ended Friday with two consecutive life sentences imposed upon the Salem father found guilty of starving his 10-year-old adopted daughter to death.

We surround families in crisis with caring, compassionate community. Safe Families for Children is a movement fueled by compassion to keep children safe and families intact. We temporarily host children and provide a network of support to families in crisis while they get back on their feet.

In her new memoir 'Thicker Than Water', out Tuesday, Kerry Washington opens up about discovering in recent years that her father, Earl Washington, is not her biological father

Christopher Emanuel, a Black father from South Carolina whose daughter was adopted without him knowing, has finally gained full custody after an intense court battle.

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An overview of adoption trends in the United States PDF version 18% Decrease in adoptions from foster care from FY19 – FY 21 19,130 Number who aged out of foster care without a permanent family at the end of FY21 113,589 Children and youth waiting to be adopted at the end of FY21 24% Decrease…

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South Korean adoptees have been returning to the country to hold the government accountable for what they call a corrupt adoption system that went largely unchanged until recent decades.

It was a couple nights before we were heading home from our son’s birth state when we sat down to ty...

One of Shawne Bolton's followers on TikTok helped track down her biological dad with whom she later connected.

The Biden administration can block a Trump rule codifying legal discrimination using federal funds, but 11 state-level measures remain intact.