A national adoption fraud scheme first exposed by the 7 Investigators is now the subject of an episode of “Feds” that ...

Review of American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption. By Gabrielle Glaser. Viking. 338 pp. $28. In the United States B.B.C. (before birth control), popular writers urged ...

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Many providers work with diverse families, including grandfamilies, kinship, foster, and adoptive families. The caregivers in these circumstances have a unique job similar to and different from a ...

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.

In a significant judgment, the Supreme Court struck down a legal provision that denied maternity leave to women who adopted ...

Generic photo provided by the SC Department of Social Services. A newborn was surrendered for adoption at Prisma Health Greer Memorial Hospital recently, the eighth this year and tying the record for ...

BALTIMORE -- A Maryland couple waiting to adopt a baby received a surprise of a lifetime when some 30 firefighters showed up to their house with their newborn son. Michael and Karen Faherty described ...

Supreme Court rules all adoptive mothers entitled to 12 weeks maternity leave, strikes down age limit clause as unconstitutional, flags paternity leave need.