Editor’s Note: This article was produced as a project for the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2025 Child Welfare Impact Reporting Fund. Initial reporting was supported by a grant from the ...

When I was born, my Korean parents, immigrants to the United States, relinquished me for adoption. At the age of two and a half months, I was placed with a white family who lived in a small town in ...

LAYTON, Utah — It’s easier to complete an adoption here than in almost any other state. A woman who gives birth in Utah can sometimes consent to an adoption with little or no input from the father and ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Now, Utah lawmakers are dramatically reining in how adoption agencies operate in the ...