Adopting a kid is one of the most rewarding things you can do — you’re literally giving a child a chance at a better life.

For adoptees, it can be eternally surprising when your adoption rears its head in day-to-day life. If things are otherwise going without incident, it is an aspect of identity that can fade into the ...

Kayleigh and Wes Wasmer’s family of four became five when they adopted Abbott (in the center). Abbott’s biological mother was homeless and was from the same small town where Kayleigh grew up. After ...

By Marjorie Ritchie It is easy for me to understand both the joy and heartache experienced by adopted children. After the unexpected death of my birth mother, my paternal aunt […] ...

“My only wish was they hadn’t chosen us,” Lindsey Jackson told Newsweek.

Laura Kosa of Auburndale adopted her sixth child in July and is fostering another child. Kosa adopted Ansley after accepting her as a foster child in October 2024 after the girl was born prematurely ...

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 ...