It's hard to find an honest account of an open adoption that works: one where adoptive parents and birthparents have agreed that they will stay in touch and share the milestones of their child’s life, ...

If the birth mother is in our lives, my child will be confused as to who their "real" parents are. The adoptive parent takes on the role of mom or dad from the very beginning. Because the birth mother ...

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 ...

The phone rang. A woman picked up the phone as she prayed with eagerness it was the call she had been waiting for. Nine months of waiting to be exact. “Hello,” she said into the phone. “Hello ma’am.

Lisa A. Tucker is an associate professor of law at the Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law. She writes about the underdogs in family law. (Courtesy photo) In the weeks after Dobbs, the ...

Open adoption, or the practice of maintaining an ongoing relationship with biological family members after a child is adopted, is becoming more prevalent in the United States. (iStock) Perspective by ...

The first time I met my daughter, Madison, she wasn’t mine yet and I wasn’t sure she would ever be. I stared into her solemn face and looked shyly at her mother, Jessica. “Can I pick her up?” I asked.

In America today, it’s quite normal for a family to adopt a child and maintain some degree of contact with the child’s birth parents. But as accepted as this is now, it’s a significant departure from ...