Adoption

While we often highlight the joy of families formed through adoption, we must also recognize the responsibility to protect everyone involved.

To serve the children most in need, we must work to make adoption a clear and accessible path for all Americans able to provide a loving home.

On this week’s episode we talk to Gretchen Sisson, a sociologist studying abortion and adoption. Sisson’s research on mothers who choose to relinquish their rights into private adoptions led to her writing Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood.

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.

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

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

Wendy’s Wonderful Kids is a program of the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption that for decades has focused on finding permanency for older youth in foster care, as well as children with special needs.

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