I’m excited to focus this month’s family-building column on domestic adoption, and more specifically, open adoption, which can create meaningful opportunities for children to maintain connections to ...

A few months ago, I posted a guest essay on the growing practice of "open adoptions" of animals in shelters and rescue organizations. The essay, "Is the Trend toward Open Adoption Good for Animal ...

I have experienced firsthand the courage of two birth mothers who chose my husband and me to raise their babies. We met these pregnant women, as well as the birth fathers and birth grandparents, of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Seeing a vintage, playful-looking train around a Christmas tree with many presents immediately caught Rachel Cartwright's eye. It ...

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 ...

These days, 95% of adoptions are "open," meaning birth parents, or the birth mother, have some degree of involvement with the adoptive family. Those arrangements vary widely, from occasional pictures ...

Author Nicole Chung, shown here in a provided photo, has documented her experience growing up as a Korean American adoptee in a white family in Southern Oregon in her two memoirs, “All You Can Ever ...

My husband and I adopted four children within a span of seven years. I distinctly remember the day my oldest turned nine months old. I was rocking her in her nursery when it dawned on me that she had ...

Pennsylvania residents Caitlin Trone and Christian Mayer were both adopted, but Trone's adoption was open and Mayer's was not. Mayer's closed adoption created a lot of guilt and shame he had to ...