While adoption is a deeply meaningful step for many people, it isn’t always a clean handover. Family-based adoptions in ...

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I never understood adoption jokes growing up. As an adoptee, I could not grasp what was wrong with being adopted. To me, being adopted meant that I had a loving family who wanted me and loved me just ...

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 ...

Current messaging places adoption as a “choice of the choiceless,” as one abortion advocate, whom Hanlon and Kirk quote, has put it. That sums up the seeming triumph of abortion over adoption, death ...

November is National Adoption Month, a time to honor the complexity of adoption and the voices of those who live it every day: adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive families. Throughout this month, ...