Adoption

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. By Sandy West

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.

By Bria Suggs

On this week’s episode we talk to Kamilah Bunn, CEO of the National Adoption Association, and Toni Oliver, former president of the National Association of Black Social Workers, about the recently published Black Paper, an early look at the effect of NAA’s Ujima Black Family Connection Program.

Under a new law, thousands of Minnesota adoptees have received vital records that contain the once-concealed details of their birth