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Each year during November, we celebrate National Adoption Month. We honor the families built through adoption and acknowledge the thousands of children still waiting for permanency or reunification.

The biological parents' parental rights must be terminated — either voluntarily through relinquishment or involuntarily through a court proceeding. Without termination of parental rights, adoption ...

Adoption is the process by which an adult legally and permanently takes over parental responsibility for a child and, at the same time, the rights and responsibilities of the child’s biological parent ...

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 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 ...

“But aren’t you grateful to be alive”? That’s a question adoptees like me are often asked when we speak out against the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Like other adoptees, I ...

For many people, the dream of raising a child is their greatest hope. Unfortunately, not everyone can or wants to conceive biologically, and hiring a surrogate or paying for IVF is very expensive.

When I was growing up, I was one of the only adoptees (and the only Korean) I knew. As an adult, I’ve been fortunate to get to meet and talk with a number of adoptees, including adoptees of color who, ...