Families are often praised for love and second chances—but behind closed doors, loyalty can fracture quietly. Emma grew up believing she’d finally found home, only to discover her adoptive parents ...

Most of the professional literature on reunion, and many memoirs written by adult adoptees about their reunions with birth parents, assume that adoptive parents will play no role. There seems to be an ...

Foster and adoptive parents are hoping to help other families navigate the challenges of caregiving with their new nonprofit, Steadfast Foster and Adoptive Support. Launching in September, the ...

I struggled with the issue of whether and how any parent should write about a child. I don't think there is any one correct position, but something that each parent has to face and resolve. When a son ...

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 ...

When Ali Marie Watson conceived a child in 2012, she sought to place her baby in adoption. The Paduca, Kentucky, native studied 30 profiles of adoptive couples sent to her by her adoption agency. The ...