Adoption

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

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

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

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?

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.

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

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

The theories and policies that govern American adoptions are out of date.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.

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.

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.

Thousands of abandoned roosters and past-their-prime hens have landed in animal shelters across the country since urban farming took flight.

The San Pasqual Academy argues we should let foster teenagers create their own tribe.

Hollywood stars have made international child adoptions trendy in recent years, but countries have been striving to make practice safer.