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adoption

10/16/2025

Beware of Adoptive Parents Like the Woman on 169th Street

Lexie Lee

She didn’t adopt me because she wanted me. She adopted me because it made her look good, writes Lexie Lee.

7/25/2025

The Adoption Trap

Sandy West

Private foster care and adoption agencies in Texas are brokering contracts for moms to turn over their children in a murky legal world, spawning protracted civil custody battles. By Sandy West

Illustration by Guillermo Ortego

This article was first published in The Texas Observer, an Austin-based nonprofit news organization covering culture and politics.

7/22/2025

‘State-sponsored Abandonment’ No More: California Stops Paying for Adoptees Sent to Out-of-State Treatment Centers

Sara Tiano

Four months after The Imprint asked for data on adoptees sent out of state for residential care, officials abruptly halted the practice.

5/30/2025

‘A Connection to Who You Are’: Georgia Lifts Decades-old Restrictions on Adoptee Birth Certificates

Jordan Anderson

Georgia is now allowing adoptees over the age of 18 who were born in the state to secure copies of their original birth certificates.

5/26/2025

When I Went to Jail, I Didn’t Just Lose My Freedom — I Lost My Daughter

Opinion

Stephanie Jeffcoat

California's AB 1195 gives incarcerated parents a fighting chance and children the right to know their parents didn’t abandon them.

Youth Services Insider

2/20/2025

Bills Introduced on Adoption Support, Rehoming

John Kelly

Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) have reintroduced a pair of bills that would fund pre- and post-adoption services and help states avoid the rehoming of adopted children.

2/5/2025

‘Ambiguous Loss’ — A Team of Researchers is Learning From Indigenous Women Whose Children Were Adopted

Nancy Marie Spears

Researchers are documenting the experiences of American Indian and Alaska Native women whose children were adopted or placed in foster care.

Youth Services Insider

1/30/2025

Report: Millions for Helping Older Foster Youth Goes Unspent

John Kelly

A new report finds many states end up giving back some of their funds from the federal Chafee program for older youth in foster care

1/22/2025

Georgia Advocates Hope to Ease Adoptees’ Access to Their Original Birth Certificates

Bria Suggs

By Bria Suggs

Illustration by Christine Ongjoco.

As Georgia lawmakers return to the state capitol this month, advocates are again preparing to push for legislation that would give adoptees in Georgia easier access to their original birth certificates — documents that can be essential links to recovering vital medical histories and long-sought origin stories.

1/9/2025

New York Governor Approves Long-Sought Law Blocking Payments for ‘Broken’ Adoptions

Susanti Sarkar

Two other new laws will assist 21-year-olds leaving foster care and identify needs of kids in the system living with a developmental disability.

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