Though the process can be tedious and time-consuming, adoption is a great option for all involved parties. Adoptive families and the birth parents who cannot care for their babies are both giving them ...

Lots of people assume you can only adopt children or teenagers, but, in the United States, you can also adopt an adult. There are lots of reasons you might decide on adult adoption. Adult adoption is ...

Parents who have adopted on what to say (and not to say) to parents who have grown their family via adoption and how to best support any adoptive families you know Becoming a parent is a major life ...

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 / ...

When LGBTQ+ people tell me they want to adopt, I always start with the same response: “Tell me what you mean by that.” Not to challenge them, but to make it clear that adoption isn’t one path. There ...

The phone rang. A woman picked up the phone as she prayed with eagerness it was the call she had been waiting for. Nine months of waiting to be exact. “Hello,” she said into the phone. “Hello ma’am.

“An underlying factor for all of the adoptions in my study is that most mothers that I interviewed didn’t want to be relinquishing in the first place.” An activist in Santa Monica, California, that ...

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“Adoption, not abortion!” has been among the staples of pro-life mantras. It was emblazoned on the very first pro-life bumper sticker I got for my parents’ car right after Roe v. Wade was decided. The ...