My morning routine? It’s not what you might expect. It often starts at my brother’s home, with a cup of coffee in hand and my niece Clara, who is adopted, on my knee. She is a blessing, and the type ...

Adoption is one path many families take to love and belonging. Here is what it can teach all of us about building chosen family with care, clarity, and lifelong commitment.

Readers discuss a guest essay by a Chinese adoptee. To the Editor: Re “An Adoptee’s Lifelong Search for Home,” by Cindy Zhu Huijgen (Opinion guest essay, Sept. 16): When I read this article, I had ...

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 ...

When in October 2022 Michelle Reed brought home from Haiti two adopted sons after a grueling five-and-a-half year process, she didn’t know they had a younger brother in the orphanage they just left.

HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — The 50-year-old newspaper was turning yellow and its edges fraying, so she had it laminated, not as a memento but as proof — America made a promise to her, and did not keep it.

WEST PALM BEACH — Seven years ago, Wiline Profit met her first case as a social worker. She was a timid 6-year-old girl named Atcheile with long, curly hair, who loved to draw with colored pencils.Now ...

While Maryland expanded foster care capacity in the state this year, child advocates noted many older children continue to ...

A woman has written in to a parenting advice column after she and her husband adopted her sister-in-law’s twins. “My husband and I went into parenting thinking we’d like to have three or four kids,” ...