For National Adoption Day on November 17, which strives to raise awareness of the 117,000 children in foster care waiting for permanent homes, we asked adoption professionals, adoptive parents, and ...

In America, popular narratives about adoption tend to focus on happy endings. Poor mothers who were predestined to give their children away for a “better life”; unwanted kids turned into chosen ones; ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Cassie was a 22-year-old college student working a part-time job when she found out ...

When I was born, my Korean parents, immigrants to the United States, relinquished me for adoption. At the age of two and a half months, I was placed with a white family who lived in a small town in ...

Today, most women who relinquish infants for private adoption report wanting to parent, but are lacking the support and financial resources to do so. (Photo by Michael Ho Wai Lee / SOPA Images / ...

While adoption is wonderful in many ways, it comes with its own set of unique challenges. Sometimes, those challenges come from other people making incorrect assumptions. Lisa Schieff, 30, was adopted ...

Adoption can be exhilarating, scary, confusing, and hopeful, all at the same time. Adoption, though a fairly common means of forming a family, is rarely represented in media; as a result, prospective ...

Bringing a child into your home is a priceless gift. But when it comes to adoption, there can be some serious costs involved as well. The amount you pay to adopt a child can vary significantly, ...

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Adoption agency providers in Texas tell "GMA" what the landscape looks like now. When Madelynn Ballenger, 21, found out she was pregnant with her second child last year, she said she was around five ...