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ACLU Sues Michigan for Funding Faith-Based Adoption Agencies That Discriminate Against Same-Sex Couples

A 2015 law signed by Governor Rick Snyder protects child-placement agencies from providing services that conflict with their religious beliefs.

Kate Wheeling

Social Justice

Single Man Seeking Baby

For a growing group of straight men, fertility clinics and gestational carriers are providing life after 40.

David MacNeal

News in Brief

The Research Against Mississippi’s Ban on Gay Adoption

A reading list on the differences—or lack thereof—between gay and straight parents.

Francie Diep

Social Justice

The Stories We Tell: Adopting From a Troubled Country

Adele Barker brought Noah home from Paraguay in 1987. Now, 28 years later, she’s not sure whose story is accurate. Can we ever really know?

Adele Barker

Social Justice

Aunt Mommy

How does it feel to be the biological parent of your sister's child or the aunt of the children you birthed? Americans are finding out.

Rachel Rabkin Peachman

Social Justice

How Does It Feel to Be the Biological Parent of Your Sister’s Child?

An early look at a Pacific Standard story that's currently only available to print and digital magazine subscribers.

Pacific Standard Staff

News in Brief

The Fake Birth Mothers Who Bilk Couples Out of Their Cash by Promising Future Babies

Another group that's especially vulnerable to scams and fraud is that made up of those who are desperate to adopt a child.

Lauren Kirchner

News in Brief

America’s Unseen Export: Children, Most of Them Black

The theories and policies that govern American adoptions are out of date. At least until they’re changed—to keep state and private agencies from applying the law in such a way as to prioritize heterosexual couples—you can expect the outgoing adoption industry to continue growing, raising important questions about race and rights.

Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza

News in Brief

The Frozen Children: The Rise—and Complications—of Embryo Adoption in the U.S.

More efficient than in vitro fertilization and cheaper than traditional adoption, embryo adoption, which also provides parents with the experience of carrying a child, is becoming more popular. But our legislature is still struggling with serious legal issues surrounding the practice.

Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza

Social Justice

The Kids Will Be All Right, Even Without the Nuclear Family

Gay, straight, single, divorced: Five studies that prove that the who of family matters a lot less than the how when it comes to raising happy, healthy kids.

Michael Fitzgerald