Everything shifted after Raeyn Bailey Perri’s birth — at least it did in the lives of the adults who love her. Richard Perri knew his life would change the moment he saw Nicole Bailey, his wife, in ...

KETV NEWSWATCH SEVEN. AS HOLIDAY SHOPPING WRAPS UP. OPEN DOOR MISSION COLLECTS GIFTS FOR THEIR ADOPT A GUEST PROGRAM. THE PROGRAM ALLOWS PEOPLE TO ANONYMOUSLY, ANONYMOUSLY ADOPT SOMEONE WHO LIVES ON ...

This study reports the first large-scale public opinion survey (N = 646) on adoption. It describes the public's attitudes and opinions concerning adoption, open adoption, and the desire or need of ...

Lisa A. Tucker is an associate professor of law at the Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law. She writes about the underdogs in family law. (Courtesy photo) In the weeks after Dobbs, the ...

My husband and I adopted four children over the span of seven years. All of them are open adoptions. These arrangements allow for varying degrees of contact between adoptive and birth families. In our ...

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If the birth mother is in our lives, my child will be confused as to who their "real" parents are. The adoptive parent takes on the role of mom or dad from the very beginning. Because the birth mother ...

Adoption lets you take lifelong social, emotional, and legal responsibility for a child. It establishes a lawfully recognized, permanent relationship between you and the adopted child. For the birth ...