Critics of adoption have sometimes argued that children need to grow up in families who match their ethnicity, lest they develop a confused sense of identity. According to this viewpoint, ethnically ...

November is National Adoption Month, a time that celebrates adoption and highlights the need for more people to provide permanent, loving, and safe homes for children growing up in the foster care ...

I mean, adoption never stems from, generally, like, this positive experience, right, so we can almost assume that there was some trauma involved, and it is hard, as a transracial adoptee, or as an ...

Adoptive parents don’t take family for granted. We worked hard to create ours. Each adoptive parent has a unique reason for adopting. In our case, I became ill after giving birth to our son. As he ...

Pete Buttigieg and his husband Chasten are raising adopted Black children – something he recently discussed on the "Flagrant" podcast. And they're hardly alone. Scroll through TikTok and you'll find ...

What do Sandra Bullock, Madonna, Tom Cruise, Jane Fonda, Steven Spielberg, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Angelina Jolie have in common? All have adopted Black children or children of African descent.

The decision to adopt marks the beginning of an extraordinary journey—one filled with anticipation, hope, and the promise of unconditional love. For thousands of families each year, adoption creates ...

NEW YORK -- Several leading child-welfare groups will urge an overhaul of federal laws dealing with transracial adoption today. They argue that black children in foster care are ill-served by a ...

Strategy aims to address significant delays for black children awaiting adoption, including by tackling 'multiple hurdles' facing black people wanting to adopt and lack of diversity among adoption ...